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- GLC#
- GLC02469.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 12, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Benjamin, Judah Philip, 1811-1884
- Title
- to Henry A. Wise
- Place Written
- Richmond, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 24.9 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Written on letterhead of the War Department of the Confederate States by Acting Secretary of War Judah Benjamin to Brigadier General Wise. States that the bearer of this letter, William A. Pratt, wants to import "some cargoes of iron" from abroad under the English flag. He wants to then run them ashore on small vessels. Asks Wise to facilitate the enterprise as far as he possibly could.
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