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Pickens, Francis Wilkinson, 1805-1869 to L. P. Walker

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09198 Author/Creator: Pickens, Francis Wilkinson, 1805-1869 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 15 March 1861 Pagination: 7 p. Order a Copy

South Carolina Army units to be received into the Provisional Confederate Army. The "Convention...shall adopt the necessary ordinance for their transfer to the Confederate States. They will...be fully prepared & equiped to serve the country at any post to which they may be ordered."

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