Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant) (1818-1893) to J. T. Doswell
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03564 Author/Creator: Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant) (1818-1893) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: no date Pagination: 1 p. ; 20 x 12.5 cm. Order a Copy
Dated "Saturday morning." Beauregard encloses a note (not included) from "a gentleman who had offered me that servant girl & her family." Two of the family recently died, and though Beauregard regrets their death, he is "glad it has occurred before they had been bought." Doswell was likely a financial agent and/or merchant in New Orleans.
Beauregard was a Confederate General in the Civil War. This document was created before 1865.
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Saturday morning
Dear Sir,
I enclose you herewith a note from the gentlemen who had offered me that servant girl & her family. By it you will perceive that they have lately died (two of them) - I regret much this unfortunate event - but I am glad it had occurred before they had been bought.
Yours truly,
G.T. Beauregard
Mr. J.T. Doswell
66 St. Charles New Orleans
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