Letters of Isaac Shelby [manuscript], 1864.

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Letters of Isaac Shelby [manuscript], 1864.

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Letters to Shelby chiefly pertain to foraging and routine commissary matters including receipts, requests, and reports on transportation of provisions. Of interest are a letter mentioning Longstreet's commissary accounts, a letter complaining about improper foraging by soldiers from another district, a letter re: a local farmer's refusal to sell wheat to the government, and a letter mentioning houses burned in Abingdon during a Union raid, 1864 December 28. James G. Paxton is a correspondent.

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