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- GLC#
- GLC00451.07-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 1861
- Author/Creator
- Vickers, George, 1801-1879
- Title
- to Thomas Holliday Hicks
- Place Written
- Kent County, Maryland
- Pagination
- 3 p. : envelope Height: 20 cm, Width: 12.5 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Also signed by Jesse K. Hines, William T. Smyth, S. [R.?] Spencer, and Edward Wilkins. A committee transmits an inscribed silver pitcher, waiter, and goblets to Thomas Holliday Hicks at the end of his term as Maryland Governor. According to the committee's statement, the inscription reads: "To his excellency, Thomas Hollyday Hicks, Governor of the State of Maryland. From the Union men of Kent, for his unswerving devotion to the Constitution, and the Union."
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