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Lee, Stephen D., 1833-1908 to Edward Manigault

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02459.21 Author/Creator: Lee, Stephen D., 1833-1908 Place Written: Charleston, South Carolina Type: Autograph letter signed Date: April 29, 1861 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 25.1 cm, Width: 19.8 cm Order a Copy

Lee, Assistant Adjutant General at Charleston, writes to Colonel Manigault, Chief of Ordnance, South Carolina. The Brigadier General commanding (possibly P.G.T. Beauregard, commander of the forces of Charleston Harbor), orders Manigault to send ordnance and stores listed to Captain Robert Martin, commanding at Georgetown.

Lee, Stephen Dill, 1833-1908
Manigault, Edward, 1817-1874
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893

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