From David M. Lesser, ABAA, Woodbridge, CT, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 20 October 1997
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Two leaves, each 5" x 8," entirely in ink manuscript on rectos only. Docketed on page [4]. Very Good. Commissary Agent Stubbs has "been waiting for several days for an answer from you in relation to cattle but hear nothing from you yet. The pressing demand for beef, together with the several dispatches from Maj. Cummins & Locke, to hurry up cattle, have forced me to send hands to Cat. Summers for Cattle without waiting any longer for an answer from you, presuming that it would all be wright. The demand for beef from Maj. Cummins has increased in consequence of large reinforcements having been sent to Genl Bragg from Miss. & Virginia. Hence the demand is much greater than when I saw you and we now want 1500 per week if they can be had. . . I am very Respectfully Your obt Servt C.F. Stubbs Agt. Comy Dept CSA." Major Pleasant Woodson White [1820-1919] was a lawyer from Quincy, Florida, commissioned a Major in the Confederate Army in 1861 and appointed as Chief Commissary Officer for Florida. After the war, he was Judge of the Second Circuit Court from 1869-1879 and Commissioner of Lands and Immigration from 1881-1885. Captain Charles Francis Stubbs [1830-1882] was a member of the Georgia Light Artillery, "Jackson Artillery", Massenburg's Battery, Capt. Maxwell's Battalion. Seller Inventory # 39284
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Title: AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED 9 SEPTEMBER 1863 AT...
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