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Frank and Virginia Williams

Description

This handwritten letter, dated March 14, 1865, is written from Ulysses S. Grant to Charles A. Dana who served as Assistant Secretary of War during the American Civil War, playing especially the role of the liaison between the War Department and General Ulysses S. Grant. The letter informs Dana of some things concerning General Sherman, the Surgeon General, Secretary of War, and Major General J. M. Schofield. The letter is on "Head quarters Armies of the United States" letterhead and is signed "U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General". This letter was found tipped into volume seven, between pages 282-283 of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.

Publication Date

3-14-1865

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Publisher

New York : The Century Co

Time Period

1860-1869

Subjects

Grant, Ulysses S., 1822 – 1885

Object Type

text

Format (original)

correspondence: 1 leaf

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

FVW_NH_V7_1865-03-11_Letter_001

Source

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 7, pages 282-283

Repository

The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana Repository

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

Letter, Ulysses S. Grant to Charles A. Dana, March 14, 1865

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