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ANTIQUE CIVIL WAR COLONEL WILLIAM HEATH LETTER GENERAL US GRANT FRIEND VICKSBURG
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A SIGNED HANDWRITTEN LETTER BY WILLIAM H. HEATHColonel of the 33rd Missouri Volunteers, dated MAY 15, 1916
The letter is from a friend of US Grant who shares an account of his at Vicksburg. In part, "Perhaps one from Vicksburg will be interesting. I went down there July 15 1863 to get additional guns at Helena, Ark. At table as we were talking about Gen. Joe Johnston some one I think Gen. Chettam said Johnston was making a sortie from Jackson Miss. - directed against Vicksburg. 'Ah!'said Gen. Grant, speaking up sharply 'he is getting ready to retreat.' And this proved to be true, for he had really begun evacuating already."
9.1/2 inches high (the original sheet)