H. S. Baker to Ozias M. Hatch

Alton Sept 10. 1864

O M Hatch

Springfield

Dear Sir

I wish you would see the Governor and tell him that unless A F Rodgers is commissioned Col. of the regiment being raised here, as Genl Rosecrans has recommended, that the union party in this county has gone to hell.

i am astonished that the Govr. should allow himself to be influenced in the heart by a miserable set of hounds down here; whose assurance is only equaled by their ignorance. I know what I write, this thing must be done or we are gone.

Yours Truly

H. S. Baker

Baker. H. S.

Alton Sept 10th 1864

Says that unless Rogers is commissed Col. of the Alton Regt. The Union Party in that county is gone. He is astonished that the Govr. is influenced by a set of "Hounds" down their whose assurance is only equalled by their ignorance

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