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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: N2017- 33
Creator: Galt, John M.
Title, Dates: John Galt letter to Arthur Emmerson, 1845.
Amount: 1 folders
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Biographical/Historical:     John M. Galt lived in Virginia, where he went to school to be a physician. In 1842, U.S. President John Tyler appointed Galt into the U.S. Army Ordnance Department as a military shopkeeper. He served at Augusta Arsenal in Georgia and Apalachicola Arsenal in Florida. Later, he joined the Confederate Army as Major in the Commissary Department and commanded the post at Lynchburg, Virginia.
Summary:     This collection consists of a letter from John M. Galt to Arthur Emmerson, Esquire, in Portsmouth, Virginia. Galt sent the letter from the Apalachicola Arsenal in Chattahoochee, Florida on April 30, 1845. The letter discusses general details about Galt's life, family, and current events.
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General Note: Previously State Library of Florida Manuscripts Collection MS33.
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Subject Access Fields: Letters. aat
Gadsden County (Fla.)
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