BIB_ID
116878
Accession number
MA 22354
Creator
Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850, sender.
Display Date
Fort Jesup, Louisiana, 1845 July 3.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 25 x 19.8 cm
Notes
Addressed "My dear Betty."
Addressed to "Miss M.E. Taylor / Buffalo N. York."
From page 5 of Zachary Taylor album.
Addressed to "Miss M.E. Taylor / Buffalo N. York."
From page 5 of Zachary Taylor album.
Summary
Writing to his daughter about the impending annexation of Texas and the approval by Congress; writing that he will go with the troops from New Orleans across the Gulf, in case Mexico should attempt to stop the annexation, but Taylor writes that he does not anticipate that happening; discussing plans for his daughters upcoming travel, possibly first to Wheeling, Ohio.
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