McMillan, Charles, fl. 1866 to William T. Sherman
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00955.01 Author/Creator: McMillan, Charles, fl. 1866 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph manuscript signed Date: circa 1866 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 24 cm, Width: 15 cm Order a Copy
Writes an inscription to Major General Sherman on a blank flyleaf apparently removed from the "History of Julius Caesar" presenting this "brochure." Hopes that Sherman will be induced to write a similar history about the Civil War. " ... this Imperial brochure may induce him to undertake at some early leisure 'Commentaries' on a war of more magnificent proportions than Cesar's Gallic one in which so much has been done by himself & this great army toward making the history of the time and illustrating the American name." Signs the inscription, "from his devoted friend and former staff officer," as a surgeon in the U.S. Volunteers.
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