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September 09, 1846

James Baldwin Dorman, Letter, 9 September 1846, Accession 41180, Personal Papers Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. James Baldwin Dorman, Letter, 9 September 1846, Accession 41180, Personal Papers Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. James Baldwin Dorman, Letter, 9 September 1846, Accession 41180, Personal Papers Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. James Baldwin Dorman, Letter, 9 September 1846, Accession 41180, Personal Papers Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

James B. Dorman Wrote to His Father

On September 9, 1846, James Baldwin Dorman (1823–1893) wrote his father in Lexington, Virginia, while serving with the 2d Texas Regiment Mounted Rifles near Carmago, Mexico, during the United States' war with Mexico. In the letter Dorman discussed the hostility of Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794–1876) as well as marching orders to move on to Monterey. Dorman later served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, as a delegate to the Virginia secession convention, and was a major in the Confederate States Army.