Letcher, John (1813-1884) to the Council
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00642 Author/Creator: Letcher, John (1813-1884) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 15 May 1861 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 29 x 23 cm. Order a Copy
States that Colonel Fauntleroy outranked General Robert E. Lee in the United States Army and feels Fauntleroy is entitled to be commissioned nothing lower than a brigadier general in the Provisional Army. With endorsement of P.F. Howard, secretary of the Council approving the nomination. Says "…I regret that I cannot concur in the recommendation made by the Council in the case of Colonel Fauntleroy. If I am correctly informed, Col Fauntleroy ranked General Lee in The United States Army, & if this is so, it seems to me, that he is justly entitled to the commission of a Brigadier General in the Provisional Army…."
Letcher served as Governor of Virginia 1860-1864.
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