Baldwin, William Edwin, 1827-1864 to D. W. Flowerree

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GLC#
GLC05002
Type
Letters
Date
February 3, 1863
Author/Creator
Baldwin, William Edwin, 1827-1864
Title
to D. W. Flowerree
Place Written
Snyders Bluff, Mississippi
Pagination
2 p. : Height: 23.7 cm, Width: 18.2 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

General Baldwin informs Major Flowerree, an assistant adjutant general (for General Dabney Herndon Maury), that an unofficial report informed of thirty seven deserters from the 37th Mississippi Regiment the previous night. Notes that the Big Black River can only be crossed in two locations, and that guards placed at these points could easily apprehend deserters. Autograph endorsement signed by General Maury, on verso, written 4 February 1863. Maury forwards and approves, stating that measures "may be at once adopted for the arrest and punishment of deserters..." Another note on verso states that additional orders should be delivered to Shelly, so that no soldier may cross the river at the ferry stations near his command. Accompanied by a paper frame.

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