Letters, 1893.

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Letters, 1893.

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Letters (two original, one photocopy, and one photocopy of a letter published in the Southern Sentinel newspaper of Ripley, Mississippi) written by former Union Brigadier General Dawes requesting information from surviving members of the 2nd Mississippi Regiment, who surrendered to him at the Battle of Gettysburg, and by Major General John Alan Blair of Tupelo, Mississippi and D.J. Hill in reply.

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University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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