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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08012.07 |
| From Archive Folder | Letters from William Tecumseh Sherman to Edward O. C. Ord |
| Title | Letter from William T. Sherman to Major General E. O. C. Ord regarding his difficult post |
| Date | 16 March 1867 |
| Author | Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891) |
| Recipient | Ord, Edward |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Letter to Ord advising Ord on his difficult and undesirous post-war [Reconstruction] command in Arkansas and Mississippi: "...your new command...will be exceedingly vexatious, more especially, as now you have in addition to military duties civil functions...You will have all sorts of enemies round you: And Congress ready to take off your head..." "Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri" letterhead. |
| Subjects | Military History Union General Reconstruction Congress American Indian History |
| People | Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891) Ord, Edward Otho Cresap (1818-1883) |
| Place written | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Theme | Reconstruction; Government & Politics; Native Americans |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Recipient Relationship | Comrade |