Papers, 1863.

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Papers, 1863.

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Letters to James B. McPherson, general in the Union Army, from the quartermaster in Vicksburg concerning the issuance and branding of captured stock, and from Eugene Hill, a former Confederate traveling agent, concerning rams and gunboats being constructed by the Confederacy in Mobile, Alabama, for an attack on New Orleans.

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McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864

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McPherson was born in Clyde, Ohio. He attended Norwalk Academy in Norwalk, Ohio, and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1853, first in his class, which included Philip H. Sheridan, John M. Schofield, and John Bell Hood; Hood would oppose him later in the Western Theater. McPherson was directly appointed to the Corps of Engineers with the rank of brevet second lieutenant. For a year after his graduation he was assistant instructor of practical engineering at the Mi...