Patrick Crowley to Richard Yates

Germantown Hospital

Germantown Penn Dec'r 2nd 1864

Hon Richard Yates

Governor of the State of Illinois

Springfield Ills

Governor

I am a private in Company "G" twenty third 23d Illinois Volunteers. and have the honor to request to be transferred from German town to Camp Douglas Chicago Ills, being severely wounded in the left arm, so as to be unfit for active service, and my parents an aged Father and Mother reside in Chicago and of course it would be gratifying to me to be near them, being in active duty for the last four years.

Hoping you will give the above your kind attention

I have the honor to be

Very Respectfully

your Obt. Svt

Patrick Crowley

Company "G" 23rd Ills. Volunteers.

Crowley Patrick

Germantown Pa Dec 1/64

Wants transfer to an Illinois Hospital

Dec 6th 64 And & appd for

Porter