Papers, 1861-1870.

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Papers, 1861-1870.

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Letter from John Titcomb Sprague, 1861, commenting on Fort Sumter and its commander, Robert Anderson; orders from Crawford, 1870, as commander of the United States troops in Alabama instructing officers on the policing of the polls during the coming election; and a letter from the sheriff of Montgomery, 1870, concerning the threat of a riot.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Sprague, J. T. (John Titcomb), 1810-1878

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Adjutant general of the state of N.Y. From the description of Letter, 1863. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38293510 ...

Anderson, Robert C.

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Robert Anderson was the son-in-law of Alexander Macauley. From the description of Anderson-Macauley papers, 1770-1858 [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145410781 Robert Anderson, born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1805, was the commander of Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor at the outbreak of the Civil War. The Union commander held out against Confederate forces for four months, without supplies from the North. When the Confederate troops discovered that a shipm...

Crawford, Jr., Samuel Wylie, 1829-1892

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Crawford was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1846 and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1850. He joined the U.S. Army as an assistant surgeon in 1851 and served in that capacity for ten years. Crawford was the surgeon on duty at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, during the Confederate bombardment in 1861, which represented the start of the Civil War. Despite his purely medical background, he was in command of several of ...