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- GLC#
- GLC02382.117-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 7 August 1874
- Author/Creator
- Gardiner, Asa Bird, 1839-1919
- Title
- to Henry Jackson Hunt
- Place Written
- Glencoe, Maryland
- Pagination
- 6 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 25.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Gardiner, a Civil War veteran from New York, relates that he was recently in Louisville, Kentucky, where a young man was pretending to be Hunt's son. Inquires as to the legitimacy of the young man's claims. Marked "Private" at the top of page one. Mentions General Sloan, Medical Director of the Department of the South. Gardiner published several works on military topics. After the war, Gardiner served as Secretary-General of the Society of the Cincinnati and District Attorney of New York County.
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