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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02750.037 Author/Creator: Place Written: Petersburg, Virginia Type: Autograph letter Date: 1865 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 19.8 cm Order a Copy

Informs the recipient that as Brigade Officer of the Day, the author found the men at several pickets "well instructed and vigilantly performing their duty." Written at Poplar Grove Church.

Jenks, Ethan A., fl. 1828-1901

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