Letters to Stephen D. Yancey

William Lowndes Yancey was an American politician in the Antebellum South. As an influential "Fire-Eater", he defended slavery and urged Southerners to secede from the Union in response to Northern antislavery agitation.

1863
Civil War
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J. Bankhead Magruder to Stephen D. Yancey, July 1, 1863

From J. Bankhead Magruder

To Stephen D. Yancey

July 1, 1863

HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, La., July 1, 1863. GENERAL: Your letter of the 23d ultimo,j communicating the successful attack by you on the enemy’s works at Brashear City on the…