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Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1820-1891. Letters, 1863-1864. 8 items. Positive photostats of A.L.S.
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Letters from Gen. William T. Sherman to Silas F. Miller, steamboat captain of Louisville, Ky.; mentions transmission of Confederate money that Miller sent to his brother in Mississippi; situation of Thomas F. Marshall at Vicksburg; thinks Marshall has recovered some of his pictures; criticism of George D. Prentice and the press; Sherman's attitude toward cotton and trade; comments on draft riots in New York and other disturbances in the North; conditions in Kentucky; thinks Union men should clean out their state; Sherman's march to Atlanta and entry into the city; sends Miller a pass to visit him there. Pub. ; Sat. Rev. of Lit., Feb. 28, 1948; and Courier-Journal Mag., March 7, 1948.