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LONGSTREET, JAMES. Autograph Letter Signed, to A.S. Bacheller, declining to
write a speech and sending instead his speech delivered on the most recent anniversary of
General Grant’s death. 1 page, 8vo, ruled paper; folds. (AKF)
Gainesville, 21 January 1897
[600/900]
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. . . I am . . . in doubt if I can find the opportunity to write as you would like. The speech on
Gen. Grant’s last anniversary delivered at Boston may meet your wishes.”
WITH
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James Longstreet. Secretarial copy of his speech commemorating the fallen Union and
Confederate soldiers, closing with a conciliatory quotation from Grant’s
Personal Memoirs
. 5
pages, 4to.
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PILLOW, GIDEON JOHNSON. Autograph Letter Signed, “Gid. J. Pillow,” to
Edward G.W. Butler, acknowledging receipt of his letter regarding a discovery of a head-
stone from the grave of a companion of Hernando de Soto, stating that he has written for
advice, promising to reply when he has more information. 1 page, 4to; faint scattered off-
setting, folds. With the original envelope. (AKF) Memphis, 27 February 1872
[400/600]
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I am in receipt of your letter . . . forwarded to me from Columbia [TN] relative to the sup-
posed Head Stone of . . . one of the companions of the Spanish Cavalier [Hernando] De Soto
said to have been found in Hickman County Tennessee.
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Your letter is the first information I had received of the discovery . . . .”
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