Mansfield, Joseph K.F., 1803-1862 to Lorenzo Thomas

GLC02464.11

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GLC#
GLC02464.11-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
6 May 1861
Author/Creator
Mansfield, Joseph K.F., 1803-1862
Title
to Lorenzo Thomas
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
1 p. : docket Height: 25.3 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Mansfield informs Thomas, Adjutant General for the United States, that he accepts the appointment of Brevet Brigadier General conferred upon him from the United States President (Abraham Lincoln). Accepts the title "with the hope that in so doing I can better serve my country in the trying circumstances in which it is placed."

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