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SAMUEL GIBBS FRENCH

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SAMUEL GIBBS FRENCH

<b>149. SAMUEL GIBBS FRENCH</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899>(1818-1910). Confederate major general born in NJ with service in Departments of Southern VA and NC; fought in Atlanta Campaign and with Hood in Franklin and Nashville Campaigns; a veteran of the Mexican and Apache Wars. AES “<i>S G French</i>” in bold pencil at bottom of a South-Western Telegraph Company telegraph, Jun 3, 1861, in reply to W. Cox & Co. who informs him, “<i>Seven bundles leather left—quality Second rate</i>” priced at 35 cents. French replies, “<i>You need not buy. Has Gerteis arrived. How many have altered.</i>” Light toning and soiling; o/w VG.

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