Sincerely & Faithfully Yours
Frederick D Grant
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Tecumseh, Michigan, January 16, 1904.
Mrs. James Longstreet:
Gainesville, Georgia:
Dear Madam,—Trusting you will pardon the intrusion, I desire to thank you kindly for the pleasure derived from your article so conclusively refuting the charges against General James Longstreet, unhappily revived in General Gordon’s book. Although a Federal soldier during the last two years of the Civil War, its ending, with me, was the close of the unhappy strife.
The admiration I held for James Longstreet was sincere and well founded, and one of the mementoes I much treasure is an autograph letter from him, generously written to me December 18, 1893.
The news of your husband’s death was to me a personal grief. He was the one remaining conspicuous figure in the great conflict which those who participated in will remember while life remains.
Very respectfully,
John D. Shull.
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