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PLEAOING FOR THE RELEASE OF
THReE BROTHERS; SOLorERS OF THE..CONFEOERATE ARNY CONFINEO AS PRISON·
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MAJOR GENERAL JOHN E. WOOL'S AUTOGRAPH.
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GENERAL WOOL. COMMANDER OF FORTRESS MONROE. WHO TOOK OVER NORFOLK ~.
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JEFF DAVIS ON PROPOGANDA COVER OF 1862
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WAR DEPARTMENT Letter and cover,bearing the FREE FRANK of ofCharles A. Dana, Lincoln'sAssistent Secretary of War,underdate of October 21,1864. Danawrites "I saw the President twoor three days since. and havetried in vain to go and see you.Mr.Lincoln is perfectly disposedbut says: 'See Seward' (WilliamH.Seward. secretary of state).I fear lam not the best personto do the business with thePreillier; but if you desire, Iwill try. His son has charge ofall consular appointments,but,of course, makes none of momentwithout the Secretary's directions.
Yom"s faithfully C.A.Dana."Dana has often been calledLincoln's eyes and ears of theCivil War.
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MADISON, GEORGIA JUU' 1st 1862. Letter written by Captain W.W.Warner while a prisoner ofwar. This is only the second recorded letter fromthis prison. In the letter Warner describes it: "j send this byLieut. McOullockone of our officers parolled ro go to our lines ... we had been quartered atAtlanta one week & here nearly two weeks -our present prison is the thirdstory of a factory which has been arranged as a military prison - it issurrounded by a close fence some twelve feet high - a very secure placeclosly guarded. We have the range of the yard but are not permitted ro goout ... "
The letter was placed in the mails at NASHVILLE, TEN. Jul 25, 1862and forwardec.. DUE 3. The three cent stamp was apparently placed on bythe Clermont, Iowa postmaster as a postage due stamp would be used.
Captain William W. Warner was interned in "God's Acre" cemetery atClermont, Iowa. His headstone reads: ~Died at Memphis, Tennessee, Dec. 13,1863."
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