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- GLC#
- GLC05740
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 26 August 1862
- Author/Creator
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
- Title
- on George W. Randolph
- Place Written
- Richmond, Virginia
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 19.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Davis's endorsement, written on blank leaf of Secretary of War Randolph's letter, discusses doing justice to General John B. Magruder and the recommendation that he be given a command in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Randolph's letter (the first two pages), dated 26 August 1862, defends Magruder against charges of drunkenness and incompetence during the Peninsula Campaign: "He must be acquitted on 'incompetence' altho on more than one occasion he may have erred." On Confederate States of America, War Department stationery.
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