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To: Brigadier General John Pope

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05601.001 Author/Creator: Place Written: St. Louis, Missouri Type: Document signed Date: 1861/12/13 Pagination: 1 p. + docket Order a Copy

"Application has been made for furlough of a man of Capt. Frisbees 37th Ills. to attend a corpse to Indiana. If you approve, give it."

Halleck, Henry Wager, 1815-1872
Frisbees (captain), fl. 1861
Pope, John, 1822-1892

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