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McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864 to David Dixon Porter

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02463.14 Author/Creator: McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 24 June 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 19.9 cm, Width: 13.1 cm Order a Copy

Written "Before Vicksburg," Mississippi. General McPherson requests that Admiral Porter "let the bearer Lorain Ruggles, one of our scouts have (500) Five Hundred Cartridges for 'Henry's Rifle,' Our Ordnance Officer has none that will suit." Written on Headquarters, Seventeenth Army Corps, Department of the Tennessee stationery.

McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864
Porter, David Dixon, 1813-1891
Ruggles, Lorain, 1824-?

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