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HAYS, HARRY

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103. HARRY HAYS (1820 - 1876) Confederate major general who commanded the Louisiana Brigade at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Severely wounded at Spotsylvania, he remained in Louisiana until the end of the war. An interesting A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo., New Orleans, Apr. 17, 1875, in which Hayes writes concerning a fraud and the autographs of several generals, in part: "...I am sorry to have to lessen your faith in humanity by informing you that. Mr. Engine Frick, as he calls himself, is an unmitigated fraud. The Fricks compare one of the most numerous respectable families in this city, but your man is the Black sheep of the flock...His real name is...G.W. Washington. He was never in my command in the Confederate service...I think I shall be able to procure from you the autograph of General L. A. Stafford, but I know nothing of Generals Derkler and Hogg..." Mounting strips on the verso of the last page, which is blank, tiny mouse chew in upper left corner well away from text, otherwise very good. $600-800

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