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- GLC#
- GLC04512
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1 March 1877
- Author/Creator
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
- Title
- to Henry H. Gorrings
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 25 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Addressed to Lieutenant Commander Gorrings, Gettysburg. Thanks him for sending the note from Lord Napier at Gibraltar. Comments on Napier's conduct during the Abyssinian campaign, "He was extremely polite to several of our army officers who visited Calcutta, Delhi etc. ... In his conduct of the Abyssinian Campaign, ... He organised, conducted that Campaign, and closed all its barriers[?] without a change of plan or of Commander. an event that proved him a perfect organizer & General." Written on stationary of the Headquarters Army of the United States.
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