Colonel Robert W. West Letter
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Scope and Contents
One page letter from Colonel Robert W. West to Mrs. Lucy Tucker, Mrs. Lucy Hausford, and Mi[f]s. Emily Morrison dated 29 November 1863. It is a summons for the ladies to return to Mrs. Vest's home in Williamsburg, all of the property they took without permission. He requests them to comply within a week or he threatened to send colored troops to their homes to search and remove the items for them.
Dates
- Creation: 1863 November 29
Creator
- West, Robert W. (Person)
Language of Materials
English
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- Title
- Guide to the Colonel Robert W. West Letter
- Author
- Finding Aid Authors: Christina Luers.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- The collection description/finding aid is written in English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Research Center Repository