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- GLC#
- GLC01925
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 31, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880
- Title
- to Thomas Hill Watts
- Place Written
- Richmond, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 25.8 cm, Width: 20.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Seddon, Confederate Secretary of War, writes to Watts, Confederate Attorney General. Seddon states, "You are respectfully informed in reply to the applications of D H Parker submitted by you, that the Exemption Act has not embraced overseers of negro hounds among the exemptions and the Department cannot supply the omission."
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