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Jones, Samuel, 1819-1887 to Pierre G.T. Beauregard

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02461.14 Author/Creator: Jones, Samuel, 1819-1887 Place Written: Camp Barton, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: August 30, 1861 Pagination: 1 p. ; 25.5 x 19.6 cm. Order a Copy

General Jones writes to Beauregard, commander of the First Corps, Army of the Potomac. Requests to take Lieutenant [J.J.?] Garnett, presently Second Lieutenant in the Washington Artillery, as his aid-de-camp. Writes, "I have no one on my staff or in my Brigade who has received a Military Education at West Point, or elsewhere that I am aware of..."

Jones, Samuel, 1819-1887
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893
Garnett, J.J., fl. 1861

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