to William Ward Orme

Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 to William Ward Orme

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GLC#
GLC02241
Type
Letters
Date
February 6, 1864
Author/Creator
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875
Title
to William Ward Orme
Place Written
Frankfort, Kentucky
Pagination
2 p. : docket ; Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Written as Governor of Kentucky on executive stationery. Writes to Union Brigadier General Orme to request the release of a Confederate soldier interned at Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois. Says that the Confederate soldier, Willie Long, had been drafted into the Confederate army and captured, but his family was pro-Union. His father, "a true man to the government" had been captured by Confederates at Little Rock and then released. Asks that Willie Long be allowed to see his brother Ambrose B. Long. Bramlette forwards the request (not present) of Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, that the soldier take the oath of allegiance.

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