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- GLC#
- GLC02382.101-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 25, 1870
- Author/Creator
- Worth, Margaret, 1828-?
- Title
- to Henry Jackson Hunt
- Place Written
- Flushing, New York
- Pagination
- 3 p. : envelope Height: 20.6 cm, Width: 26.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
By the daughter of General William Jenkins Worth. Had previously collected information regarding her father's military service, especially pertaining to the Mexican American War. Notes that she received a statement from Joseph E. Johnston. Mentions Lee's (possibly Robert E. Lee's) opinion regarding the 20 August 1847 Battle of Churubusco. Mentions a bill in Congress introduced by New York Representative Henry Warner Slocum, a Civil War general. Calls the War Department the "mutual admiration society."
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