Frank P. Blair Letter, . 6 June 1865

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Frank P. Blair Letter, . 6 June 1865

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Frank P. Blair was a general in the Union Army during the Civil War. The collection is a letter from Varina Howell Davis to General Blair, relating in detail the capture of her husband, Jefferson Davis, complaining of his treatment in prison, and describing her own circumstances and treatment since the capture.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6625667

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Blair Jr., Francis Preston, 1821-1875

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Blair was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He was the third and youngest son of newspaper editor and politician Francis Preston Blair, and Eliza Violet (Gist) Blair. He was the brother of Montgomery Blair, a Mayor of St. Louis and Postmaster General under Lincoln, and the cousin of B. Gratz Brown, a U.S. Senator and Governor of Missouri. Blair attended schools in Washington, D.C., was matriculated in Yale and the University of North Carolina, but graduated from Princeton University in 1841, and then...