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CIVIL WAR, CONFEDERATE GENERALS]. HAMPTON, WADE, Lt. General, C.S.A. Autograph letter signed to "Dear Gibbs," n.p., 16 July 1840, 1 page, 16mo, integral address leaf , inviting a friend to dinner: "Come & take soup with some friends, who meet Fitsimmons & General Montgomery..." WILLIAM JOSEPH HARDEE, Lt. General, C.S.A. Letter signed to Union General Saxton (holding Beaufort, S.C.), Charleston, 24 January 1865, 1 1/4 pages, 4to, integral address leaf , written just four months before the fall of the Confederacy, concerning arrangements for the sale of cotton to licensed Federal agents (trade with northern commercial factors was permitted in many localities, due to the South's shortage of capital and the north's need for cotton): "I have determined to authorize the sale of cotton within the limits of my department..." -- JOSEPH EGGLESTON JOHNSTON, General, C.S.A. Autograph letter signed to Darwick C. Davey, Washington, D.C., 19 April 1888, 1 page, 8vo, with original envelope , declining an invitation: "...I have so much travelling on business to do, that it is very unlikely that I shall be able 'to visit the Naugatuck Valley on or before June 1 next...'"; JOHNSTON. Autograph letter signed to Harry E. Peck, Washington, D.C., 15 April 1887, 1 page, 8vo, integral blank. supplying the address of the widow of a great Confederate officer of the same name: "...Gen. A[lbert] S[idney] Johnston's widow resides in Los Angeles, California..." -- JOHN CABELL BRECKENRIDGE, Vice-President under Buchanan, later Secretary of War, Major General, C.S.A. Autograph letter signed as Vice-President to Secretary of the Navy Isaac Toucey, Washington, D.C., 3 January 1861, 1 page, 4to, lined stationery, formerly backed , the future Confederate forwards a request: "I have the honor to enclose herewith the application of Colonel John Johnston for an appointment for his Grand son...as a Midshipman in the Navy..."; together 5 items . (5)