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- GLC#
- GLC00992
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 21, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914
- Title
- to Mary K. Buckner
- Place Written
- Paducah, Kentucky
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 13 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Confederate general Buckner writes to his wife, states that he is on his way to Indianapolis, where he was interred at Camp Morton after surrendering Fort Donelson to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. States that his staff is with him. With an autograph note signed on verso by Buckner to Grant, asking that it go to his wife. Sent care of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston.
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