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- GLC#
- GLC05603.01.17-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- September 22, 1915
- Author/Creator
- Smith, Francis Marion, 1842-1917
- Title
- to John E. Boos
- Place Written
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 22.3 cm, Width: 14 cm
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
- Sub-Era
- The Politics of Reform
States he has not replied until now because of a serious illness. Has attached his signature to a statement for the National Tribune giving his impressions of April 2, 1865, a day Abraham Lincoln came to visit City Point hospital and so impressed a Confederate prisoner that he swore to not raise arms against the government again (see GLC05603.18). Relays that he cannot send autographs of the officers of the Maryland Regiments because he does not have them.
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