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Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Special order No -

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02020 Author/Creator: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Place Written: Jackson, Tennessee Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 26 September 1862 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 25 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

Unnumbered special order commanding Colonel William Hillyer to Memphis to meet with General William T. Sherman on "special business" and return quickly. Statement of payment scrawled horizontally on the recto.

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Hillyer, William Silliman, 1830-1874

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