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- GLC#
- GLC04513
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- December 11, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Johnston, William Preston, 1831-1899
- Title
- [Endorsement on an envelope addressed to Martha Ready Morgan]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 envelope Height: 5.5 cm, Width: 12.9 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Date taken from a pencil note on the envelope. One side of the envelope indicates the correspondence was sent under flag of truce terms to Mrs. Morgan, the wife of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, care of Johnston in Richmond, Virginia. Johnston endorses on verso, writing "With congratulations on Genl Morgan's escape." Contains a five cent Confederate postage stamp. Johnston possibly signed in Richmond.
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