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- GLC#
- GLC01464
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 28, 1870
- Author/Creator
- Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909
- Title
- to Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 13 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Thanks him for an invitation to the celebration for the emancipation of Rome by Italian forces. In 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon III withdrew his troops from Rome. Italian troops moved into the city, and Rome voted for union with Italy in October 1870. Howard was commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau from 1865 until 1872. Signed as Brigadier General and Commissioner of Freedmen.
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