Manuscripts

Grant, Dabney's Mill, Virginia, to Major General Edward O.C. Ord and Major General George Gordon Meade

Description: Autograph drafts, in pencil. Dated 9:45pm. Not marked cipher. (2 pages)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1865 March 31
Call number: HM 25075
Creator: Grant, Ulysses S (1822-1885)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from William Bixby, 1918. William K. Bixby purchased various parts of the collection from 1904 to 1914 from S.H. Beckwith, Grant's secret cipher operator, and from the sons of Colonel George K. Leet, who was a member of Grant's staff.
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