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- GLC#
- GLC03723
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 26 June 1863
- Author/Creator
- Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880
- Title
- to Joseph E. Brown
- Place Written
- Richmond, Virginia
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 19.9 cm, Width: 25.4 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Disagreement over whether the replacement for a deceased officer in a Georgia regiment is to be elected or chosen by the President. Brown, who often believed Jefferson Davis exercised too much power, believed that the officer should be elected, however Seddon writes that Confederate law states he will be chosen by the President. Written on Confederate States of America War Department stationary.
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