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Collection Reference Number GLC02469.30
From Archive Folder Unassociated Civil War Documents 1861 
Title Leroy Pope Walker to William S. Morris includes a copied version of a dispatch Walker recently received from General Felix Kirk Zollicoffer regarding communication. Walker asks Morris to estimate the cost of this
Date 9 September 1861
Author Walker, Leroy Pope (1817-1884)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Walker, Confederate Secretary of War, writes to Morris, President of the Southern Telegraph Company. Includes a copied version of a dispatch Walker recently received from General Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, commander of the District of East Tennessee, Department Number 2. Zollicoffer writes from Knoxville, Tennessee, stating that it is necessary for Morris to immediately "connect the Knoxville Depot of East Tennessee & Va. R. R., by telegraph, with Bristol- and also establish a telegraph office at Mossy Creek, in East Tennessee." Walker asks Morris to estimate the cost of Zollicoffer's request, and to confer with the Post Master General on the subject. Written on War Department, Confederate States of America stationery.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Confederate General or Leader  Congress  Telegraph  Government and Civics  Post Office  Patriotic Stationery  
People Walker, Leroy Pope (1817-1884)  Morris, William S. (fl. 1860-1865)  Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk (1812-1862)  Reagan, John Henninger (1818-1905)  
Place written Richmond, Virginia
Theme The American Civil War; Science, Technology, Invention
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Additional Information Walker was Secretary of War for the Confederacy 25 February to 16 September 1861. John H. Reagan was the Postmaster General of the Confederate States during the Civil War. Before heading the Southern Telegraph Company, Morris had been President and a major stockholder of the American Telegraph Company.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945