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- GLC#
- GLC03476.08-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- April 1, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Birney, David Bell, 1825-1864
- Title
- [Regarding a furlough request]
- Place Written
- Hampton, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Birney's autograph endorsement signed on verso of a letter in which Captain Daniel E. Gavit writes to his captain Chauncey McKeever requesting a fifteen day furlough because his family house is in foreclosure. Other autograph endorsements signed include McKeever, Colonel George W. Mindil, John Henry Hobart Ward and Charles S. Hamilton. Although the other officers approve the furlough, Hamilton, the senior officer, disapproves of it, and the furlough is rejected.
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