Magrunder, John Bankhead, 1807-1871 to John Letcher

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GLC#
GLC02461.19-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
30 September 1861
Author/Creator
Magrunder, John Bankhead, 1807-1871
Title
to John Letcher
Place Written
Yorktown, Virginia
Pagination
1 p. : docket Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

General Magruder requests that Captain Jeff Phillips (possibly Jefferson C. Phillips), of the 'Old Dominion Dragoons,' be promoted to the position of Lieutenant Colonel of a cavalry regiment. Relates that Phillips has been recommended by Colonels Hood and Johnson (possibly referring to John Bell Hood). Informs Letcher, Governor of Virginia, "If his signal services be not recognized by promotion it will have an injurious effect on all those who are heroic & properly ambitious."

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