19 May 1865
Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914
Autograph letter signed
Title: to Thomas Caute Reynolds
General Buckner, commanding the District of Arkansas and West Louisiana, Trans-Mississippi Department, writes to Reynolds, Confederate Governor of Missouri. Advises Reynolds to move off of the main road. Docketed by Reynolds. Says"...Every thing here is uncertain. The Missourians are still true, but I doubt if they will move. I am tied here as yet, by duties from which I have no right to shrink." Relates that General Smith (possibly Edmund Kirby Smith) has been sent to Houston, and he must wait to hear from Smith before he departs. Autograph letter signed, on verso, Reynolds reply, from…
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