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- GLC#
- GLC08247.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 17 June 1864
- Author/Creator
- Meriweather, J.B., fl. 1864
- Title
- to Conrad Baker
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Meriweather writes to Colonel Baker about the 7 March 1864 arrest of Lieutenant Frank Williams of the 13th North Carolina, a parolee captured at Gettysburg, for disloyal conduct, including "using the most obscene and vulgar language towards the President...insulting the Flag...abusing some sick soldiers of the Union army...". Meriweather, the local provost marshal, asks that Williams be sent to Johnson's Island as a POW. Docketed up the chain of command to the commissary general of prisoners.
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