ALS : to William Farrar Smith, 1863 July 5.

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ALS : to William Farrar Smith, 1863 July 5.

Meade gives his reasons for not pursuing Lee in his retreat from Gettysburg. With a docket note by Smith, dated July 1883, recalling his actions at the time.

1 item (4 p.) ; 21 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6691444

Rosenbach Museum & Library

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Smith, William Farrar, 1824-1903

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American army officers. From the description of Letter signed for him by James J. Brady : New York, to Joseph Holt, 1865 Aug. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664862 Union army officer. From the description of William Farrar Smith correspondence, 1863-1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980495 William Farrar Smith, also known as Baldy Smith, was born in St. Albans, Vermont, February 17, 1824, the son of Ashbel and Sarah Butler Smith. ...

Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872

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Meade was a US Army officer, most noted for his route of Gen. Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863 during the U.S. Civil War. From the description of [Document and photograph] / Geo. M. Meade. [1863] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 287187126 ...