Samuel P. Lee Civil War letters, 1865 Apr. 27-June 1.

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Samuel P. Lee Civil War letters, 1865 Apr. 27-June 1.

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Two letters written by Acting Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee document Union naval activity in the Gulf of Mexico and on the Mississippi River.

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