- GLC#
- GLC00653.24.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 5, 1861
- Author/Creator
- Furniss, John P., fl. 1861
- Title
- to Judge Haden
- Place Written
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 18.3 cm, Width: 14.5 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
John P. Furniss asks for financial remittance due to his having taken "private classes to improve [himself] in particular branches of Medicine." He relates that two convicts hung the day before, and a friend of his took a part of one of the bodies for Furniss to dissect. Signed "Your friend & ward." Furniss was a Confederate doctor.
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