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- GLC#
- GLC09165
- Type
- Letters & documents
- Date
- 12 May 1861
- Author/Creator
- Lyon, Nathaniel (1818-1861)
- Title
- to Colonel Lorenzo Thomas
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p.
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
As captain three months before he would become the first Union general killed in the war. "The energetic and necessary measures of day before yesterday...require persevering, and consistent exertion to effect the object in view, of anticipating combinations and measures of hostility against the general Government, and that the authority of Gen'l Harney, under circumstances, embarrasses in the most painful manner, the execution of the plans I had contemplated, and upon which the safety and welfare of the government as I conceive, so much depends and which most be decided in a very short period."
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