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Letcher, John, 1813-1884 to the Council

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00642 Author/Creator: Letcher, John, 1813-1884 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: May 15, 1861 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 29 cm, Width: 23 cm Order a Copy

States that Colonel Fauntleroy outranked General Robert E. Lee in the United States Army and feels Fauntleroy is entitled to be commissioned nothing lower than a brigadier general in the Provisional Army. With endorsement of P. F. Howard, secretary of the Council approving the nomination. Says "…I regret that I cannot concur in the recommendation made by the Council in the case of Colonel Fauntleroy. If I am correctly informed, Col Fauntleroy ranked General Lee in The United States Army, & if this is so, it seems to me, that he is justly entitled to the commission of a Brigadier General in the Provisional Army…."

Letcher, John, 1813-1884
Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870
Fauntleroy, Thomas T., 1796-1883
Howard, P. F., fl. 1861

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