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Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant) (1818-1893) To: Beverly Tucker

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08013.01 Author/Creator: Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant) (1818-1893) Place Written: New Orleans Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1877/05/15 Pagination: 4 p. 24.8 cm x 19.6 cm Order a Copy

Reconstruction and end of military occupation of Louisiana: "Louisiana is oncemore free!...we have now to repair the damage of 4 1/2 years war and 11 1/2 years of robbery & oppression such as no civilized people have ever yet had to bear."

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893
Tucker, Beverly, fl. 1864-1877

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