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Buckner, Simon Bolivar (1823-1914) to John S. Preston

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01050 Author/Creator: Buckner, Simon Bolivar (1823-1914) Place Written: Knoxville, Tennessee Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 10 August 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 13 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

Confederate general Buckner asks Colonel Preston to have some letters of General John Hunt Morgan's wife sent to Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be forwarded to Morgan, who was in a Union prison camp in Ohio. Partial docket on verso; lower half of the page is missing.

[Draft Created by Crowdsourcing]
Knoxville, Aug. 10, 1863
My dear Colonel:
Mrs. Morgan the wife of Gen. John H. Morgan has desired you to send the enclosed letters. May I ask you to hand the one to the President, and place the others in the way of transmission by the flag of truce boat?
Truly your friend
S.B. Buckner

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Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914
Preston, John Smith, 1809-1881
Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Women's History
Civil War
Military History
Confederate General or Leader
Confederate Soldier's Letter
Prison Camp
Prisoner of War
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Transcript Project: Civil War letters
The American Civil War

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