Benjamin Franklin Butler letter to Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, [manuscript] 1864 August 6.

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Benjamin Franklin Butler letter to Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, [manuscript] 1864 August 6.

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Butler writes regarding a furlough for Private John Kick, who married John Tyler's niece : "I think Kick deserves a great deal of credit in making a Union woman of her, and I would recommend that a furlough of thirty days be granted hm, to set up his housekeeping in and aid in setting up a supply of soldiers for the next war."

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