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Poe, O. M. (Orlando Metcalfe) (1832-1895) to William McCrary

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03476.13 Author/Creator: Poe, O. M. (Orlando Metcalfe) (1832-1895) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 24 August 1874 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 20.5 x 12.5 cm. Order a Copy

Writes to say that he "expects to accompany Genl. Sherman to the meeting of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland." Mounted on paper 29.5 x 20 cm.

Orlando M. Poe was William T. Sherman's aide-de-camp from 1873 to 1884, previously a Union General during the Civil War.

Poe, Orlando Metcalf, 1832-1895
McCrary, William, fl. 1874

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