Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901 to Charles Guy Warden

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GLC00214.02.11-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
February 14, 1887
Author/Creator
Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901
Title
to Charles Guy Warden
Place Written
New York, New York
Pagination
1 p. : docket Height: 27.7 cm, Width: 21.5 cm
Language
English
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

General Porter, New York City Police Commissioner, instructs Warden to wish his father, author Robert Bruce Warden, luck in a literary undertaking. Indicates that R. Warden's project involves Salmon P. Chase, who had served as Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln, and later as Supreme Court Chief Justice. He hopes R. Warden "will be able to give the facts of Judge Chase's course towards McClellan & the prompting of his acts. Every point of the kind is now looked for with great interest in the light of history." R. B. Warden published a book on Chase in 1874. Chase was an ardent critic of General George B. McClellan. Written on Commissioner's Office, Police Department stationery.

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