- GLC#
- GLC02455.06-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 20 April 1866
- Author/Creator
- Hood, John Bell, 1831-1879
- Title
- to Philip Henry Sheridan
- Place Written
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 19.9 cm, Width: 12.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Former Confederate General John B. Hood writes to Commander of the Military Division of the Gulf, General Philip Sheridan (1865-1867). Requests permission for Colonel Harding to visit Mexico on business. Includes initials after post script that relates: "Sorry I missed you & Kautz" (possibly referring to General Augustine Valentine Kautz).
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