Reporting On The Causes Conduct And Aftermath Of An 1814 Duel In Washington D C In Three Autograph

by Bacon Mr

$750 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Each of the letters is franked free, but we have been unable to discover an official position for the letter writer possibly former Massachusetts Congressman Ezekiel Bacon, serving in Washington as First Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury . The first letter recounts a misunderstanding between White and Lt. Twiggs, a fellow junior military officer, leading to a duel in which White took a ball in the hip and endured its surgical removal; the following two letters report on his recovery, visiting

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