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Davis, William Watts Hart, 1820-1910 to John T. Sprague

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03476.03 Author/Creator: Davis, William Watts Hart, 1820-1910 Place Written: Hilton Head, South Carolina Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 23 April 1863 Pagination: 1 p. ; 25 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

Recommending Lieutenant Colonel William C. Raulston of the Eighty First New York Infantry for promotion. Autograph endorsement signed on verso by Henry M. Naglee, dated 23 April 1863.

Sprague, J. T. (John Titcomb), 1810-1878
Davis, William Watts Hart, 1820-1910
Naglee, Henry Morris, 1815-1886
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Union Forces
Union General
Civil War
Military History
Letter of Introduction or Recommendation
Infantry
The American Civil War

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