Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson, 1870 Apr. 6.

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Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson, 1870 Apr. 6.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270899954

Protesting the removal of George L. Andrews from his post as U.S. Marshal. Signed also by twenty-three other former soldiers.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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