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- GLC#
- GLC03587.38-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- November 20, 1861
- Author/Creator
- Hatch, J.H., fl. 1861
- Title
- to John T. Pickett
- Place Written
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Pagination
- 3 p. : clipping : envelope Height: 25.5 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Discusses the secession of the South and the movement of the Union Army into Savannah and Charleston. Reports on the South's success at Leesburg and at Columbus, Kentucky. Includes personal news. Affixed clippings pertain to the arrest of Confederate States Ministers Slidell and Mason aboard a British mail ship, the re-capture of the Steamer Sumter, and the success of the agent for the Confederate States in Mexico. Envelope included does not seem to have originally held this letter.
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