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A small (12x8cm) battlefield note. Wade Hampton was a Confederate General from South Carolina. In 1876 he became governor of that state.
Transcription
Major Barker -- Stony Creek Depot Send all information to Gen‘l Lee. Will be down tomorrow.
Wade Hampton
Petersburg May 8 1864
Creation Date
5-8-1864
City
Petersburg
State/Province
Virginia
Creator Life Dates
1818-1902
Keywords
Wade Hampton, note, Major Barker, Stony Creek Depot, Petersburg, 1864
Resource Identifier
070425-43
Date Digital
10-6-2013
Document Type
Manuscript
Disciplines
Military History | United States History
Publisher
Wofford College
Format (medium)
manuscript
Format (IMT)
Language
en-US
Digitization Specifications
600ppi or 800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; Original converted to JPEG with Irfan View, Fast Stone, or GIMP software. JPEGs compiled in PDF using Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.
Source
The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.
Recommended Citation
Hampton, Wade, "Wade Hampton battlefield note" (1864). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 14.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/14
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