Manuscripts

Grant to Major General Philip Henry Sheridan, Charlestown, Virginia

Description: Dated 5pm. (2 pages)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1864 August 21
Call number: HM 3257
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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Associated people: Butler, Benjamin F. (1818-1893,); Halleck, H. W. (1815-1872,); Lincoln, Abraham, (1809-1865,); Meade, George Gordon, (1815-1872,); Sheridan, Philip Henry, (1831-1888,); Sherman, William T. (1820-1891,); Stanton, Edwin M. (1814-1869,)
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