O. H. Browning and Lyman Trumbull to Simon Cameron

Senate Chamber.

Washington. July 22. 1861.

Hon: S. Cameron.

Sec: of War

N. B. Buford a citizen of Rock Island Illinois desires a commission in the Army. He is a graduate of West Point, was eight years a lieutenant of Artillery. He resigned to accept a civil engineers appointment in his native state Kentucky. He has been for many years an enterprising citizen of Illinois, a merchant, a President of a Rail Road, and a Banker.

We recommend him as worthy of a military appointment, and earnestly ask that a commission be given him.

Respectfully,

O. H. Browning

L. Trumbull

(over) see Senator Grimes statement.

I have known Col. Buford twenty years or more and know him to be an accomplished gentleman & worthy the confidence of the government. He is a graduate of the military academy, & in my opinion possesses superior qualifications for a military command

James W. Grimes

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