FHSU Scholars Repository

Title

Letter from Col. Bowen requesting transportation for soldiers' wives

Authors

Thomas Mead Bowen 1835-1906

Files

Identifier

jc_Bowen18650701

Date

July 1865

Description

Col. Bowen is asking for transportation of 8 women who are wives of soldiers.

Physical Description

Unlined paper is 10" x 7.8"

Rights

This material is in the public domain.

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections.

Repository

Forsyth Library Special Collections

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Bowen, Thomas Mead 1835-1906, "Letter from Col. Bowen requesting transportation for soldiers' wives" (1865). Bowen Collection. 18.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/tj_bowen/18

Language

eng

Transcription

Head Quarters 18th Kans Infy Little Rock Ark July 1st 1865 Col. John Sewering Ast Adjt General [illegible] I have the honor to request transportation for (8) women, wives of soldiers of the Thirteenth Kansas Infty. Very Respectfully Your [illegible] Servant Thos. M. Bowen Col. & Brevet Brigadier General Head Quarters Dept. of Arkansas Little Rock July 1/65 The Quarter Masters Dept. will furnish transportation as requested. By command of Maj. Gen. Reynolds John Levering A. A. General July 1st 1865 Transportation furnished from Little Rock to Devalls Bluff Ark by Capt. I. H. Pratt A. D. M.