Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914 to Thomas Caute Reynolds
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02456.03 Author/Creator: Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914 Place Written: Shreveport, Louisiana Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 19 May 1865 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 22.1 x 19.7 cm. + 1 engraving ; b&w ; 19.5 x 12 + 1 engraving ; b&w ; 21.4 x 14.6 cm Order a Copy
General Buckner, commanding the District of Arkansas and West Louisiana, Trans-Mississippi Department, writes to Reynolds, Confederate Governor of Missouri. Advises Reynolds to move off of the main road. Docketed by Reynolds. Says"...Every thing here is uncertain. The Missourians are still true, but I doubt if they will move. I am tied here as yet, by duties from which I have no right to shrink." Relates that General Smith (possibly Edmund Kirby Smith) has been sent to Houston, and he must wait to hear from Smith before he departs. Autograph letter signed, on verso, Reynolds reply, from Marshall, Texas, where a conference was held earlier that month to discuss Confederate terms of surrender. Reynolds states "... I shall arrange my plans without reference to joining you here... whatever our future, fortunes, count me among your warm friends." Two bust engravings of Buckner included as collateral.
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