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Unknown [Receipt for a letter at the Headquarters of the Trans-Mississippi Department]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01404.03 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Printed document Date: 1864 Pagination: 1 p. ; 16.5 x 23 cm. Order a Copy

Partially printed document noting the receipt of "Letter No 3848" at the Assistant Adjutant General's office. In a collection with a letter by James Longstreet to John G. Walker, who was a Confederate Major General with a command in the Trans-Mississippi theatre during the Civil War. Attached to a sheet of paper.

Walker, John George, 1821-1893

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