Letter: to Major Porter, Assistant Adjutant General / by Joseph Eggleston, 1856 Oct 18.

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Letter: to Major Porter, Assistant Adjutant General / by Joseph Eggleston, 1856 Oct 18.

Joseph Johnston comments on the tearing down of a fort established by settlers, and on the emigrants going to Topeka, Kansas, who pass by the fort.

1 p. ; 25 cm.

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