Edmund Kirby-Smith : miscellaneous papers, 1862-1871.

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Edmund Kirby-Smith : miscellaneous papers, 1862-1871.

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Includes his 7 Sept. 1862 letter to General Humphrey Marshall discussing the authority to raise troops, the surplus of cavalry, and the need for infantry; a 20 Sept. 1862 letter to General Braxton Bragg reporting that Louisville only had six thousand troops defending it and that he believed rapid movement on that city would result in its capture; and a 9 Mar. 1871 act of the Kentucky General Assembly regarding the burning of Kirby-Smith's military school near New Castle (Henry County), Ky.

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