Richard Delafield Letterbook 1846-1849

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Richard Delafield Letterbook 1846-1849

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/d/delafield_r.htm

Major General, U.S. Army; Superintendent of U.S. Military Academy, West Point; Chief of Engineers, 1864. Collection contains one volume, a letterbook belonging to Delafield while in command of engineers in New York City. Majority of letters are addressed to Joseph G. Totten, then Chief of Army Engineers.

0.25 linear ft.

eng,

Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

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