I looked up Crawford. He was surgeon of Anderson’s detachment. So the memo could have been a note to a subordinate friend. That doesn’t explain how the Richmond Whig got hold of it in time to reprint 10 days later.
As a side note, Crawford will be in Sumter during the opening of hostilities and will be an infantry officer present at Lee’s surrender at Appomattox in 1865.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_W._Crawford
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Crawford will be in Sumter during the opening of hostilities and will be an infantry officer present at Lee’s surrender at Appomattox in 1865.”
That would be cool if I were the major.
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