Manuscripts

Danville Leadbetter, headquarters Greeneville, letter to Martha Patterson

Description: Letter signed. Written to Johnson's daughter regarding the use of the Johnson family house as a military hospital by the Confederacy. (3 pages)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1861 November 29
Call number: HM 8197
Creator: Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Anderson Galleries, George S. Hellman collection sale, November 1919. Collection had been given by Johnson's daughter Martha Patterson to her friend Laura Carter Holloway Langford, author of The Ladies of the White House; or, In the Home of the Presidents (1870). Langford apparently sold the material to New York collector George S. Hellman.

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