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- GLC#
- GLC08165.74-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- September 27, 1864
- Author/Creator
- Hamilton, Daniel H., fl. 1864
- Title
- to Charles J. C. Hutson
- Place Written
- Columbia, South Carolina
- Pagination
- 1 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Letter of recommendation for Hutson for one of the subaltern vacancies in the 1st Regiment, South Carolina Artillery. Hamilton praises Hutson as "a gallant soldier," and "educated & accomplished gentleman, of high moral tone and great integrity of character." He remarks that as his former colonel he often regretted that Hutson had not gotten the promotion he so deserved. Charles was a Corporal in the 1st South Carolina Infantry during the Civil War.
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