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JOHN A. DIX

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JOHN A. DIX
(1798 - 1879) Union major general most remembered for his threat to shoot anyone hauling down the American flag, and his suppression of the bloody New York draft riots. War-date A.D.S., 1p. oblong 8vo., Yorktown, Dec. 22 [1862], to Maj. Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes showing Dix's "compassionate" side": "...The inmates of the Lunatic Asylum should be supplied with prisoners'[?] but not with full rations...". Stamp docket, very good.