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- GLC#
- GLC03350
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 29 October 1863
- Author/Creator
- Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873
- Title
- to his cousin
- Place Written
- London, England
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 22 cm, Width: 14 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Asks for help advertising for information regarding Lieutenant John H. Maury, captured below Vicksburg 27 January 1863. Maury was in England, possibly outfitting the raider CSS Savannah. John Herndon Maury, son of Matthew F. Maury, disappeared 27 January 1863 on a late-night scouting expedition on the Warrenton Road. Only the evidence cited in this letter was found; Grant and other Union officers said they could not find him among the captured. After the war an eyewitness reported that the younger Maury had been murdered that night by bushwackers.
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