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- GLC#
- GLC02457.06-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 12 September 1861
- Author/Creator
- Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883
- Title
- to John Letcher
- Place Written
- Richmond, Virginia
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Lieutenant Colonel Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance, writes to Letcher, Governor of Virginia. Gorgas offers to exchange 800 rifles for 800 flintlock muskets, for use in Colonel [Zulukowski's?] Regiment. Proposes that the exchange take place before 1 January 1862. Written on Confederate States of America, War Department, Ordnance Office stationery. One bust engraving of Gorgas included as collateral.
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