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Autograph letter signed, from Thomas L. Kane to George W. Randolfe, draft, he was captured at Harrisonburg on [ 6 June 1862], on being paroled or exchanged, 1 p., 13 June 1862; on back, autograph letter signed, from Thomas L. Kane to R. Patterson Kane, on their defeat at Harrisonburg, incomplete, 1 p., 18 June [1862].

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Autograph letter signed, from Thomas L. Kane to Edward M. Stanton, his frustration with being forbidden by his superiors from pursuing the Confederates on a number of occasions, 1 p., folded, written on 2 sides, 23 July 1862.

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Autograph letter signed, from Thomas L. Kane, to War Department, second page of a draft (incomplete), two of the “least deserving officers” in the Kane Rifles are soliciting promotions, asks to be allowed to name the “truly brave men of my regiment and command who deserve to be rewarded for gallant conduct,” 1 p., n.d.

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Autograph letter signed, from Thomas L. Kane to “Dear Sir,” draft, he is reporting for duty in Washington to the Commander in Chief, derides 2 officers who took leave of absence to solicit promotions, names four other “meritorious” officers, 1 p., folded, written on 3 sides, n.d.

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Letter, from Thomas L. Kane [written by Elizabeth Dennistoun Wood Kane?] to Col. Cobham, draft, he’s suffering from neuralgia, enclosed a letter (not there) in which he asks Cobham to find someone to attend to it, 1 p., n.d.

Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed, from Thomas L. Kane, Washington, to Eli Slifer, Secretary of the Commonwealth, asking that Slifer publicly correct the rumor that a “Bucktail Brigade” is being raised; autograph letter signed, from Thomas L. Kane to Eli Slifer, “I have hastened my exchange,” “the Bucktail Brigade trick is exposed,” recounts the “mockery of an election got up while I was on my back” in which a colonel from New York [McNeill] was elected over him, 1 p., folded, written on 3 sides, 12...

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Autograph letter signed, from Thomas L. Kane to W.M. Meredith, the statement of those raising a “Bucktail Brigade” saying that they were authorized to do so was false, he has lost rank and money since the war began, the people trying to get a Bucktail Brigade are the same people who tried to “suppress the title of Kane Rifle Regiment” and “defeated my election,” he has been able to “hasten my exchange,” 1 p., folded, written on 2 sides, 12 August 1862.

Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed, from Thomas L. Kane to Edward M. Stanton, draft “not sent,” LeRoy Stone--a “very undeserving and dishonorable officer”- -is recruiting in Pennsylvania for a “Bucktail Brigade” without authorization, encloses memorandum on “the history of Major LeRoy Stone during his connection with the regiment” (Items 11/12), the election for Colonel, Thomas L. Kane was “the first man in Pennsylvania to volunteer, after the attack on Sumter,” has never “solicited promotion” despite...