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Boham, Milledge L., 1813-1890 to Thomas Bragg

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09212 Author/Creator: Boham, Milledge L., 1813-1890 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript letter Date: 9 January 1863 Pagination: 5 p. : Order a Copy

Replies to Bragg's "interrogatories." "With the view to counteract the unfounded assumption that this State has hitherto failed to furnish to the common service her full quota of troops, I beg to add that it appears...this State had contributed to the Confederate service between forty five and fifty thousand soldiers within a fraction of one sixth of her entire white population..."

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