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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC05987.45 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of Confederate Imprints and Broadsides |
| Title | To the relatives of deceased soldiers of Leake County |
| Date | 24 October 1864 |
| Author | Williams, W. T. C. (fl. 1864) |
| Document Type | Broadside; Correspondence |
| Content Description | File contains two documents, a broadside and an autograph letter signed. Broadside, which says "Circular" at the top, says he has received from Major J.L. Power, Superintendent of the Army Records of Mississippi Troops, many blanks for the "collection of deceased soldiers arrearage." Says those wishing their claims made out and forwarded to the government should call on him at Carthage, Mississippi with a credible witness. Asks if claimants who have been furnished with accounts of the deceased by company captains, that they should be brought along. Service is free to widows, others have to pay a small postage fee. Printed on the back of a portion of another document. Letter is one page (23.5 x 18 cm.) written by Williams to Major Power and is dated 24 October 1864. Says he received the blanks and that he took the responsibility to send out a circular requesting relatives of the deceased to furnish him with information. Says he took the action because "I knew that there is a much greater indifference on the part of the people to furnish you with the desired information." |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Death Soldier's Pay Government and Civics Marriage Women's History |
| Place written | Carthage, Mississippi |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Banking & Economics; Children & Family; Women in American History; 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 |