Manuscripts

Isham Green Harris, Murfreesboro, letter to Eliza McCardle Johnson

Description: Autograph letter signed. Reports that General Forrest is sending a flag of truce to Nashville for Eliza Johnson's travel. In pencil. (1 page)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1862 October 12
Call number: HM 8218
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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