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Ulysses S. Grant, before Vicksburg, letter to Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, Port Hudson, Louisiana :

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Description: Regarding the desire to take possession of Port Hudson, Louisiana, the canal being constructed at Vicksburg, efforts to take possession of the Yazoo River, and possible attack on Hain's Bluff. Letter dated March 23, probably misdated (see Papers of Ulysses S. Grant). Has docket, not in Grant's hand.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1863 March 22.
Call number: mssHM 23554
Creator: Grant, Ulysses S (1822-1885)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from George D. Smith (Coggeshall sale, part 1), April 1916.
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Associated people: Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, (1816-1894,)
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Inquiring on the situation at Port Hudson, Louisiana; reports on situation at Vicksburg, Mississippi, will send troops if siege is successful. Docket, not in Grant's hand.
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Grant reports on initial events and current status of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi; offers predictions of length of siege. Includes added autograph note by Francis E. Lovejoy.
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