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- GLC#
- GLC05516
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- January 24, 1864
- Author/Creator
- Campbell, John Archibald, 1811-1889
- Title
- [Endorsement on a British citizen's request to leave the Confederacy]
- Place Written
- Richmond, Virginia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 10.5 cm, Width: 21.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Written on half-sheet of paper. Contains a request from Thomas Fitzpatrick to the Secretary of War. Fitzpatrick writes, "I am a native of Ireland and a subject of Great Britain. My trade is house-painting, and I am not only out of employment, and unable to obtain any, but am absolutely destitute of means and money, without a shelter to stay in. I earnestly and respectfully ask that I may be permitted to leave the Confederate lines by land." Campbell, Assistant Confederate Secretary of War, endorses on verso. Captain [R. L. Hardy?] also signs on verso, noting that Fitzpatrick is not liable for conscription.
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