Autograph letter signed : Head Qrs. 2d Corps, Va., to Reuben E. Fenton, 1865 Jan. 23.

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Autograph letter signed : Head Qrs. 2d Corps, Va., to Reuben E. Fenton, 1865 Jan. 23.

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Asking the appointment of his son, Charles, to a commission in General Wainwright's artillery regiment.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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