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Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 to Edwin M. Stanton

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03923 Author/Creator: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Place Written: City Point, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: February 22, 1865 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 24.7 cm, Width: 19.8 cm Order a Copy

Marked Cipher at top and copy on verso. Grant writes to the Secretary of War that he had a 100 gun salute fired yesterday for the capture of Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina, and has sent out Stanton's order to have it repeated.

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869

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