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Birney, David Bell, 1825-1864 [Regarding a furlough request]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03476.08 Author/Creator: Birney, David Bell, 1825-1864 Place Written: Hampton, Virginia Type: Autograph endorsement signed Date: 1 April 1862 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Birney's autograph endorsement signed on verso of a letter in which Captain Daniel E. Gavit writes to his captain Chauncey McKeever requesting a fifteen day furlough because his family house is in foreclosure. Other autograph endorsements signed include McKeever, Colonel George W. Mindil, John Henry Hobart Ward and Charles S. Hamilton. Although the other officers approve the furlough, Hamilton, the senior officer, disapproves of it, and the furlough is rejected.

Hamilton, Charles Smith, 1822-1891
Gavit, Daniel E., 1819-1875
McKeever, Chauncey, 1829-1901
Mindil, George Washington, 1843-1907
Ward, John Henry Hobart, 1823-1903
Birney, David Bell, 1825-1864

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