Jones, William E. (1824-1864) to Captain Duncan
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02711.24 Author/Creator: Jones, William E. (1824-1864) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1 April 1857 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 24.7 x 19.5 cm. Order a Copy
Requests the Board of Officers to examine his "horse equipage."
Jones attended Emory and Henry College before entering West Point, where he graduated in 1848, ranked 10th in his class. He served as a recruiting officer in St. Louis. He also served on the frontier until 1857, when he resigned from the Army and returned to his Virginia farm. He later became a controversial Civil War figure as a cantankerous, court-martialed outpost officer.
Washington, D.C.
April the 1st, 1857
Capt Duncan
If it should not be deemed incompatible with your sense of duty I would be much obliged to you for the nature of the instructions given to the Board of Officers of which you were a member called by this city in the month of February, for the purpose of examining horse equipage. Were the equipments adopted by that Board, the result of the study & evidence of the officers composing the Board or were they instructed merely to chose between certain examples presented--and left without any other discretion?
W.E. JONES
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