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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1435

Civil War: Blockade Runners - Georgia Important ALS by Assistant Adjutant General T.B. Ray, aide to Gen William Hardee, 1-2/3 pages, 4to, Charleston, SC, November 6, 1864. He writes to Gen Lafayette McLaws, commander of the District of Georgia, that "The Department at Richmond has expressed the earnest wish to encourage Blockade Running in every quarter as a means of obtaining Supplies for our armies, and has suggested Savannah, through Warsaw Inlet, as a practicable port...Lieut Genl Hardee begs that you will afford him all facilities..." Docketed on lower third of second page. Age-toned, with some fold wear, but boldly written and VG. It was too late to establish a new blockade-running route near Savannah. Just days after this letter, WT Sherman´s troops were making their way across eastern Georgia and bearing down on the city, which McLaws and Hardee would be unable to defend. By Christmas, Savannah was in Union hands.

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