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- GLC#
- GLC03913
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- June 3, 1861
- Author/Creator
- Magrunder, John Bankhead, 1807-1871
- Title
- to the Commissary General of Subsistence
- Place Written
- Yorktown, 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
Confederate Colonel Magruder requests 100,000 rations of bacon, coffee, vinegar, salt and molasses immediately, noting that his soldiers' supply will be exhausted in two days. Instructs the Commissary General to send the supplies with Mr. Johnson, who has orders to inquire at West Point, Virginia regarding the quantity of provisions. Instructs the Commissary to address the stores to Lieutenant Carter. Written eight days before the Battle of Big Bethel, Virginia (a Confederate victory). Written at Camp Yorktown
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