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Manuscripts
Edwin M. Stanton, Washington, D.C., letter to Andrew Johnson
- Description
Letter signed. Stanton sends orders from the War Department to Johnson as Brigadier General/ Military Governor of Tennessee for the military takeover of the state. (3 pages)
- Date
- 1863 April 18
- Call number
- HM 8222
- 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.
