Papers of Elliot Guthrie Fishburne [manuscript] 1862-1906.

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Papers of Elliot Guthrie Fishburne [manuscript] 1862-1906.

Correspondence, 1882-93, from Fitzhugh Lee and Henry Brainerd McClellan regarding Civil War [8 items] Items pertaining to other members of the 1st Va. Cavalry include: leave of absence, 1862 Aug. 24, for W.A. Hangar, signed by F. Lee and W.R. Wilson; letter, 1863 May 3, Thomas Jonathan Jackson to Robert Edward Lee [1 l. 20.3 cm. facsimile]--Order, 1865 Feb. 2, assigning W.A. Hangar to Post duty; pardon, 1865 July 23, of H.G. Guthrie [2 l. 32 cm. printed form completed by hand. signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward]--Death of Jeb Stuart a told by George W. Freed, his orderly [7 p. 19.5 cm. holograph by Fishburne]--Account by Fishburne of the 1st Va. Cavalry capture of the 5th New York [1 l. 65 cm. holograph. & 4 typescripts].

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