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(CIVIL WAR.) Two Autograph Letters Signed, each by a Union or Confederate General: Philip Kearny * Leonidas Polk. Kearny. "P. Kearny / M'r Gen'l Cmd'g / Div," to Captain David Vickers, Jr., declining his request to join Kearny's staff. Polk. "L. Polk / Lieu't Gen'l / C.S.A.," to General Braxton Bragg, returning a letter from Bragg addressed to Judge Brown with a copy of Judge Brown's words [not present], and requesting that the Judge's words be used in place of those from Bragg's memory. Each 1 page, 8vo, ruled paper; faint scattered staining, remnants of mounting along right edge verso of Kearny, horizontal folds. Np, 17 July 1862; "H'd Q'rs" [Shelbyville, TN?], 10 March [1863?]
Polk: "I think it important in your letter to Judge Brown, which I have received, to have the language imputed to you quoted as it was said to have been reported by Judge Brown . . . . I return you your letter to him with a copy of the language said by Judge Brown to have been used, and shall be obliged by your inserting that in lieu of the words your memory has furnished you. . . ."
