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Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 to George Dodge

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00468.02 Author/Creator: Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 Place Written: s.l. Type: Letter signed Date: October 4, 1864 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 19 cm, Width: 12 cm Order a Copy

Orders Colonel Dodge, Chief Quartermaster at Bermuda Hundred, to send all available boats that could carry troops to Washington, D.C. Written from Butler's Headquarters of the Army of the James in pencil, docketed in ink.

Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893
Dodge, George, fl. 1862-1866

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