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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC04039 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1865 |
| Title | Sherman William Tecumseh to John Aaron Rawlins regarding traveling to Little Rock and sending General Reynolds three African American regiments |
| Date | 29 November 1865 |
| Author | Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891) |
| Recipient | Rawlins, John Aaron |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | General Sherman states that he will travel to Little Rock, Arkansas, on 30 November 1865, and will leave Colonel R. M. Sawyer, Assistant Adjutant General of the Military Division of the Mississippi, in charge in his absence. Reports that he sent General Joseph J. Reynolds three African American regiments ordered to Sherman by General Lorenzo Thomas. States that Reynolds plans to muster out and discharge all volunteers in his department. Hopes to muster out the 100th Regiment of Colored Infantry, as it exceeds the needs of his department. States that General Edward Ortho Cresap Ord commands one African American regiment. Informs Rawlins that he has written to General Edward Davis Townsend regarding mustering out the 100th. States that General Grenville Mellen Dodge is discharging volunteers as quickly as possible. Written on Head Quarters of the Military Division of the Mississippi stationery. |
| Subjects | Reconstruction Union Forces Union General Military History African American History African American Troops |
| People | Rawlins, John Aaron (1831-1869) Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891) Dodge, Grenville Mellen (1831-1916) Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885) Ord, Edward Otho Cresap (1818-1883) Reynolds, John Fulton (1820-1863) Thomas, Lorenzo (1804-1875) Townsend, Edward Davis (1817-1893) |
| Place written | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Theme | The American Civil War; African Americans; Reconstruction |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | John Aaron Rawlins (1831-1869) was a Union general from Illinois who served as Chief of Staff to General Ulysses S. Grant, as well as his close confidante. He served as Grant's first Secretary of War. Joseph Jones Reynolds (1822-1899) was a Union general from Kentucky and commander of the Department of Arkansas. Lorenzo Thomas (1804-1875) was Adjutant General during the Civil War, except for a period in 1863-1865 during which he helped to recruit African American soldiers in Mississippi. Edward Ortho Cresap Ord (1818-1883) was a prominent Union general from Maryland who was instrumental in beginning peace talks between the Union and the Confederacy to end the war. Grenville Mellen Dodge (1831-1916) was a Union general originally from Massachusetts. After the war he became a railroad executive and a Congressman from Iowa. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
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