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Maitland, James M., 1815-1864 to Joseph M. Maitland

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03523.10.085 Author/Creator: Maitland, James M., 1815-1864 Place Written: Kingston, Ohio Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 26 July 1863 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 31 cm, Width: 19 cm Order a Copy

Updates his son with news of Morgan's Raid: "The Morgan Raid has been the absorbing topic for the last two weeks and strong efforts have been made to capture him. Thus far about 3,000 of his men have been captured, and sent to different places for confinement: the news yesterday that he with about 1,000 of his men had made their escape 12 miles below Wheeling. The most of his men were captured on an Island called Buffington's in the Ohio River... among the officers captured was Basil Duke and two of Morgan's Brothers." Notes that he was mistaken in predicting that the draft in Ohio would begin the following week. It will be postponed until David Tod, Governor of Ohio, receives orders from Washington as to the exact number of men Ohio is required to raise. Writes, "I am in hopes if the Conscription Law is put in force soon to fill up the Old Regiments and Charlestown taken that the Rebs will begin to see that all their efforts [illegible] useless." Comments on discontent in North Carolina regarding the way Jefferson Davis is handling affairs. Also remarks that the Raleigh Standard, a newspaper he calls Governor Zebulon Vance's "organ," is in favor of "a reconstruction of the Union."

Maitland, Joseph M., 1839-1918
Maitland, James M., 1815-1864
Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864
Duke, Basil Wilson, 1838-1916
Tod, David, 1805-1868
Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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