Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914 to John S. Preston
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01050 Author/Creator: Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914 Place Written: Knoxville, Tennessee Type: Autograph letter signed Date: August 10, 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 13 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy
Confederate general Buckner asks Colonel Preston to have some letters of General John Hunt Morgan's wife sent to Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be forwarded to Morgan, who was in a Union prison camp in Ohio. Partial docket on verso; lower half of the page is missing.
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