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Dix, John Adams (1798-1879) to Henry Wager Halleck

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02455.04 Author/Creator: Dix, John Adams (1798-1879) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 28 November 1863 Pagination: 1 p. ; 24.7 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

General Dix, Commander of the Department of the East, encloses a confidential report (not included) by a detective from Buffalo, New York. Informs Halleck, General in Chief of the Union army, that the detective "has seen, as you will observe, a large number of prominent rebel refugees, and, having been with them at the South, had free communications with them." Writes "I shall... send a small body of troops to Fort Montgomery at Rouses Point. [Bumont?] has been provided for by the Governor. There is, however, need of guns for a Company of artillery just recruited, and I will endeavor to procure them." Written on headquarters, Department of the East stationery.

Fort Montgomery and Rouses Point are located on Lake Champlain, New York. Horatio Seymour served as Governor of New York 1853-1855 and 1863-1865.

Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879
Halleck, Henry Wager, 1815-1872

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