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- GLC#
- GLC03946
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 7 September 1865
- Author/Creator
- Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872
- Title
- to Edward Davis Townsend
- Place Written
- Raleigh, North Carolina
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 12.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Major General Meade requests information regarding "the organization of the Division of Colored troops formerly belonging to the 28th Corps" from Townsend, the Assistant Adjutant General. Inquires regarding the status of the command of Brigadier General Payne (possibly Charles Jackson Paine). Instructs Townsend to send his reply to Major General [Thomas Howard] Ruger. Written in ink with several pencil notations.
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