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Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg, letter to Brigadier General Charles P. Stone :

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Description
Regarding mail and telegraph operations; requests Stone inform Major General Nathaniel Banks that he can not supply transports with promptness. Also discusses General William T. Sherman's operations in MIssissippi and the situation in Jackson.
Type
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Production date
1863 July 21.
Call number
mssHM 23562
Creator
Grant, Ulysses S (1822-1885)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased from George D. Smith (Coggeshall sale, part 1), April 1916.
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Associated people
Stone, Chas. P. (1824-1887,)
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