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Letter from Jefferson Davis to General Robert E. Lee Asking Advice on Who Will Replace General Joseph Johnston
7/12/1864
Letter from John Boston to His Wife Elizabeth
1/12/1862
Letter from Johnny Bartlett Regarding the Engagement Between the CSS Ram Manassas and the USS Richmond
10/12/1861
Letter from Lieutenant General Winfield Scott to Secretary of War Simon Cameron Requesting Retirement from the Army
10/31/1861
Letter from Major General J. G. Foster to Governor John Andrew
11/18/1864
Letter from Martha Cockrone to Her Husband Giles I. Cockrone
5/25/1865
Letter from Nancy Woodward to Jefferson Davis
11/12/1862
Letter from North Carolina Governor Z. B. Vance to General William T. Sherman
4/12/1865
Letter from P. T. Scruggs to Jefferson Davis Regarding General Gideon Pillow’s Operations
6/1/1861
Letter from Patients at a Confederate Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia to President Jefferson Davis
9/3/1861
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