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Manigault, Gabriel E., fl. 1861 to Governor Francis W. Pickens

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09204 Author/Creator: Manigault, Gabriel E., fl. 1861 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 13 June 1861 Pagination: 2 p. : Order a Copy

Suggests furnishing privateers with captured guns. "Frequent applications are made at the Ordnance Office by persons wishing to fit out privateers, for guns to arm their vessels...this is one of the most economical and effectual modes of carrying on the war and distressing the enemy. With autograph endorsement of Pickens.

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