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- GLC#
- GLC02459.07-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 19, 1861
- Author/Creator
- Evans, Nathan George, 1824-1868
- Title
- to Thomas Jordan
- Place Written
- Leesburg, Virginia
- Pagination
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Possibly written in Virginia. Two days before the Battle of Ball's Bluff, Confederate General Evans informs Colonel Jordan that "the Enemy have appeared in the Turnpike between Dranesville and this place, in considerable force." Reports that he is making preparations to meet the Union force, and requests reinforcements. In a postscript, he states that Union soldiers "appeared about 3 P.M. today within 10 miles of this place- when they ran my picketts in." Docketed by General Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (in pencil), commanding troops in Northern Virginia.
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