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Brown as Justices of the Peace for the 1st District of Augusta County, Virginia. Signed by John Letcher, Governor, and George W. Munford, Secretary. ","1864 November 3. John Letcher, Lexington, Virginia, to J. Hierholzer, Richmond, Virginia. Expresses concern about his Richmond friends and the city from vandals, but has learned that Richmond is safe, and \"while Richmond is safe, the State is safe, and with the State safe, the Confederacy is safe\"; comments that \"Virginia is the backbone of the Confederacy, and when she falls, all is gone\"; reports that Congress is to meet soon and expresses confidence in the new Confederate Secretary of the Treasury (G.A. Trenholm); tells of difficulty in buying supplies with Confederate money since the people have no confidence in the paper currency; no fighting in the valley since the 19th at Cedar Creek. ","1864 December 3. John Letcher, Lexington, Virginia, to J. Hierholzer, Richmond, Virginia. 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