'G.T.B.', (Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, CSA General), two page AES, ms. initials (at B. of second page) endorsing receipt of Aug. 1, 1865 two page post-war letter written and signed by a secretary on behalf of W.T. Sherman, Maj. Genl. U.S. Army, headed 'Lancaster, Ohio', replying to Beauregard's letter to Sherman regarding Beauregard's personal effects taken from him at the time of his surrender, Sherman replies that he has relayed a 'request' on Beauregard's behalf, 'If the boxes and trunks referred by Genl. Beauregard contain private papers and clothing, they should be returned to him as something too small for a great government to notice. Since my assignment West I have not exercised any command East, and can only undertake to influence as far as I can properly. You know that it is a very nice question to determine what are public and what are private papers.', two 6¾ x 8¼" pages of blue-lined stationery, light folds not affecting endorsement initials, very fine

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'G.T.B.', (Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, CSA General), two page AES, ms. initials (at B. of second page) endorsing receipt of Aug. 1, 1865 two page post-war letter written and signed by a secretary on behalf of W.T. Sherman, Maj. Genl. U.S. Army, headed 'Lancaster, Ohio', replying to Beauregard's letter to Sherman regarding Beauregard's personal effects taken from him at the time of his surrender, Sherman replies that he has relayed a 'request' on Beauregard's behalf, 'If the boxes and trunks referred by Genl. Beauregard contain private papers and clothing, they should be returned to him as something too small for a great government to notice. Since my assignment West I have not exercised any command East, and can only undertake to influence as far as I can properly. You know that it is a very nice question to determine what are public and what are private papers.', two 6¾ x 8¼" pages of blue-lined stationery, light folds not affecting endorsement initials, very fine