Orders regarding Fort Sumter, 1861.

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Orders regarding Fort Sumter, 1861.

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Extracts of orders from Headquarters of the Provisional Army of South Carolina to Col. R.S. Ripley and Major W. Gwynn directing them to accompany a detachment of artillery and engineers ordered to Fort Sumter and to make a report on the condition of the fort and its defenses. On the verso is pasted a letter (1888 Oct. 12) to B.H. Teague in Aiken (S.C.) from W. Gwynn forwarding this document.

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Dunovant, R. G. M. (Richard Gill Mills), 1821-1898

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