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- GLC#
- GLC09264
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 28 April 1865
- Author/Creator
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
- Title
- to General Howard
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Asking General Howard to protect the wife of Confederate General Robert Ransom: "I take great pleasure in committing this lady and her family to the care & protection of Gen. Howard, and beg he will let one of his staff officers see the family and assure Mrs. Ransom of the deep interest we feel in her safety and happiness." Written on verso of Minnie Hunt Ransom's ALS, 4-24-1865, to Sherman, asking for protection in occupied North Carolina.
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