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- GLC#
- GLC02382.121-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 6 January 1884
- Author/Creator
- Mackall, William Whann, 1818-1891
- Title
- to Henry Jackson Hunt
- Place Written
- Langley, Virginia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 20.4 cm, Width: 12.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
Discusses a matter before Congress regarding Hunt's retirement. Notes that Nicholls from Georgia, (John Calhoun Nicholls, United States Representative 1879-1880 and 1883-1884) has agreed to vote "to retire Genl Hunt as Major Genl". Further discusses Hunt's case. General Mackall served as chief-of-staff under Generals Braxton Bragg and Joseph E. Johnston, among other Confederate posts.
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