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- Todd Kesselring on 31 March 1865: “There would probably be no difficulty is getting the men to volunteer into this service but the difficulty is to procure the horses”
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28 July 1862: “The junction with Genl. Bragg if effected in time will I trust enable the two armies to crush Buells column and advance to the recovery of Tennessee and the occupation of Kentucky.”
Item description: Letter, dated 28 July 1862, from Jefferson Davis to Edmund Kirby Smith. Item citation: From the Edmund Kirby-Smith Papers, #404, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: Confederate States of … Continue reading
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