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- GLC#
- GLC04195.20-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 21 September 1863
- Author/Creator
- Moore, John, 1826-1907
- Title
- to Mary Moore Kelly
- Place Written
- Vicksburg, Mississippi
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 25.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
He has received a letter from Hyde about his investment with the Tolland County Bank in Connecticut. They have passed through the season without a yellow fever epidemic. The dismissal of the Surgeon General may affect his own orders. Dr. William A. Hammond was court-martialed on a trumped-up charge initiated by Edwin Stanton and was dismissed from the army in 1864 (later exonerated). "This will probably affect my position here as the Surg.-J. Mills[?]-who was here before me, is in favor with Stanton and will probably be sent back to spite Gen Hammond, as the latter after ordering him away from here, attempted to have him retired as an old fogy, but failed."
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