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Kirby Smith, Edmund, 1824-1893 Kentuckians, I am authorized by the president, of the Confederacy, to organize troops and issue commissions

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04507.01 Author/Creator: Kirby Smith, Edmund, 1824-1893 Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: circa 1862 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 24.1 cm, Width: 31.1 cm Order a Copy

Printed on vivid blue paper by Major General Kirby Smith. Says he has been authorized by Jefferson Davis to organize troops and issue commissions. Asks them to sign up in the name of loyalty to their home state of Kentucky. Says Breckenridge, Buckner and their Kentucky troops on their way to join them. Asks them to "Make one effort, strike one blow and your State will be saved from Yankee thraldom and take [its] place in the van of the Confederacy, where her interests, her institutions and her principles rightfully place her." Date inferred as early in the war from this quoted passage.

Smith, Edmund Kirby, 1824-1893

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