Letters from Major General Francis J. Herron to his brother, 1862-1863: photostatic copies. 1942 July 24.

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Letters from Major General Francis J. Herron to his brother, 1862-1863: photostatic copies. 1942 July 24.

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Copies of two letters from Major General Herron, commander for the 3rd Division, Army of the Frontier: one dated December 22, 1862, detailing the maneuvers of the division, including the 20th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, at the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas; the other dated June 8, 1863 describing participation in the siege of Vicksburg.

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Herron, Francis Jay, 1837-1902

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Francis J. Herron attended the Western University of Pennsylvania, but left at the age of sixteen without completing his degree to become a bank clerk. In 1855, he joined his three brothers in Dubuque, Iowa, where they established a bank. In 1859, he organized and was elected captain of a militia company known as the "Governor's Grays," which Herron offered to President-elect Abraham Lincoln in January 1861, two months prior to Lincoln's inauguration. In April 1861, Herron was appointed capta...