Randolph, George Wythe, 1818-1867 to Daniel S. Donelson

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GLC#
GLC02217
Type
Letters
Date
12 November 1863
Author/Creator
Randolph, George Wythe, 1818-1867
Title
to Daniel S. Donelson
Place Written
Richmond, Virginia
Pagination
2 p. : Height: 24 cm, Width: 19.9 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

General Randolph, former Confederate Secretary of War, writes: "If the War Department recognized the disbanding of your regiment you were thereby put out of commission and your subsequent assignment to duty was invalid. But if the Regt is still kept on the books of the Adjutant General as an existing regiment I presume that your commission as 1st Lt and Adjutant is yet in force... I think it hardly worth your while to incur the trouble and expense of a visit to Richmond if your Representative in Congress will attend to your application..." A pencil note, added at a later date, suggests that Donelson is the son of former political figure Andrew Jackson Donelson, and is related to Randolph by marriage.

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