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Record Group Number: 900000
Collection Number: M92- 1
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Collection/Series Title: Call family and Brevard family papers, 1788-1925.
Container: 00001
File Unit: 00001.00012
Item: 00008
Title: Letter, January 28, 1881, John Fitch, New York, to Senator George F. Edmunds, 3 pp., a letter described in an annotation on the accompanying envelope as "A fiction of Fitch -- so not delivered. E. C. Long"; the "fictional" letter introduces Mrs. Long to the Senator and asks that she be given a hearing regarding astill-pending claim of Governor Call against the U.S. government which "would have been paid but for the breaking out of the rebellion." The "fictional" letter describes an incident during the war: "Gov. Call was an old line whig and a thorough Union man during the late Rebellion. . . shortly after the commencement of hostilities, he unfurled the "old flag' from the staff on his residence which so enraged the rebels that they undertook to destroy it by force, but before they could accomplish their purpose Mrs. Long, or her sister, got possession of it and wrapped it about her person, beneath her gown, and thus saved it from destruction."
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