- GLC#
- GLC08012.07
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1867/03/16
- Author/Creator
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
- Title
- To: Major General E.O.C. Ord
- Place Written
- Saint Louis, MO
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 20.9 cm, Width: 26.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Letter to Ord advising Ord on his difficult and undesirous post-war [Reconstruction] command in Arkansas and Misssissippi: "...your new command...will be excedingly vexatious, more especially, as now you have in addition to military duties civil functions...You will have all sorts of enemies round you: And Congress ready to take off your head..." "Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri " letterhead.
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