Letters and general orders, 1864-1869 / Alvan C. Gillem.

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Letters and general orders, 1864-1869 / Alvan C. Gillem.

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General orders, reports, and letters of Major-General Alvan C. Gillem, U.S. Army, while in his military command in Tennessee and later, as commander of the 4th Military District (Mississippi and Arkansas). Contains copies of his reports to Andrew Johnson, then Military Governor of Tennessee, about the campaign in East Tennessee, including accounts of skirmishes at Strawberry Plains, Greenville, Morristown, and Blue Springs. Also includes copies of reports and correspondence received by Gillem and others about the Freedmen's Bureau and the Constitutional Convention in Mississippi.

1 v. (412 p.) ; 40 cm.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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