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- GLC#
- GLC02094
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1865/06/16
- Author/Creator
- Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906
- Title
- to Alfred Howe Terry
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 25 cm, Width: 19.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Lengthy letter describing the war-time sacrifices of Erhandz Richter, a Richmond brewer, presumably of German origin, who sacrificed his fortune and risked his family to serve in the Union Army. Schurz pleads Richter's cause with the commander of the Dept. of Virginia, asking him to assist Richter in returning to his business, which had been sold off by his partners, who were Confederate sympathizers. With a docket on the verso from Head Quarters in Richmond concerning action to be taken about Richter and his brewery.
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