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Sears, Thomas to Governor Francis W. Pickens

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09196 Author/Creator: Sears, Thomas Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 12 February 1861 Pagination: 1 p. Order a Copy

Two Virginians offer to fight in the army of South Carolina, which had already seceded, "to show to the Rest that we are sincere in what we say and in the cause of... the Southern confederacy." With an autograph endorsement by Pickens.

From the wartime papers of South Carolina Governors Francis W. Pickens and Milledge L. Bonham.

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