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McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885 to [John Sherman?]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02230 Author/Creator: McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 24 May 1861 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 21.7 cm, Width: 25.7 cm Order a Copy

General McDowell introduces an officer. The Seller's Description states that this letter was "from a small collection of correspondence addressed to John Sherman, who had just become a U.S. Senator from Ohio at this date." Says "Permit me to introduce Captain R. S. Granger ... The Captain is in a position to need your aid, and as his case is a very important one as involving a great principle and as bearing on the way existing hostilities are to be prosecuted, I have assumed you might find it of sufficient interest to claim your consideration."

McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885
Sherman, John, 1823-1900
Granger, Robert Seaman, 1816-1894

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