Administrative Information

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Collection is open to research.

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Preferred Citation

Cocke and related families Papers, Accession 2433-x, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

This letter was given to the Library by John Page Elliott of Charlottesville, Virginia, on January 16, 1989.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

William H. Harrison writes to Dr. Arthur Brent , of Bremo Bluff, Fluvanna County , February 21, 186[6?], on Army of Northern Virginia, Headquarters Cavalry Corps stationery, [Richmond], Virginia , that he has not received copies of his newspaper. He asks Brent to have Mr. Cabell send it "immediately from New York as I am most anxious to see its many pages at this momentous period." He expresses thanks that a split in the ranks has occurred and hopes that Andrew Johnson 's veto message might crush [Benjamin Franklin] Wade , Mr. Wilson, and [Thaddeus] Stevens .