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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC05516 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1864 |
| Title | Endorsement on a British citizen's request to leave the Confederacy |
| Date | 28 January 1864 |
| Author | Campbell, John Archibald (1811-1889) |
| Additional authors | Fitzpatrick, Thomas (fl. 1864) |
| Document Type | Military document |
| Content Description | Written on half-sheet of paper. Contains a request from Thomas Fitzpatrick to the Secretary of War. Fitzpatrick writes, "I am a native of Ireland and a subject of Great Britain. My trade is house-painting, and I am not only out of employment, and unable to obtain any, but am absolutely destitute of means and money, without a shelter to stay in. I earnestly and respectfully ask that I may be permitted to leave the Confederate lines by land." Campbell, Assistant Confederate Secretary of War, endorses on verso. Captain [R. L. Hardy?] also signs on verso, noting that Fitzpatrick is not liable for conscription. |
| Subjects | Global History and Civics Foreign Affairs Confederate States of America Civil War Immigration and Migration Poverty Military History Conscription |
| People | Campbell, John Archibald (1811-1889) Hardy, R.L. (fl. 1864) Fitzpatrick, Thomas (fl. 1864) |
| Place written | Richmond, Virginia |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Foreign Affairs; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
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