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Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909 to Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01464 Author/Creator: Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: December 28, 1870 Pagination: 4 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 13 cm Order a Copy

Thanks him for an invitation to the celebration for the emancipation of Rome by Italian forces. In 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon III withdrew his troops from Rome. Italian troops moved into the city, and Rome voted for union with Italy in October 1870. Howard was commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau from 1865 until 1872. Signed as Brigadier General and Commissioner of Freedmen.

Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909
Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr., 1831-1878
Bonaparte, Charles Louis Napoleon, 1808-1873

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