1 25 51 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/d731f744411495e160f77055bba542bc.pdf 26ae2eccde311cd6445aac634e752681 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Needs Review Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. 1 Jacksonville Oct 11 1862 Governor Yates Dear Sir On my return from Washington City I found yours of Sept 18 and hasten to reply - I went to Washington about the first of September, being telegraphed of the sickness & probable death of my fourth son Charles who was in the army there. He had the typhoid fever badly, but recovered. I learned that you was in Washington and were very anxious to see you & father Giddings, & called at your rooms at the National but could not find you. I was there over a month with my sick son, and was so perfectly amased at what I saw that I knew not what to do. When I came home I was still more surprised to see by your letter, that you and experienced much the same alarm that I had, without the least possible conference between us. to shew you what my alarm was, I will with your permission now take the liberty to extract from my notes written at Washington three days after my arrival there, before the proclamations & before I had consulted with a single soul, but merely walked <hr /> around as an entire stranger and kept my eyes and ears open. of course I had a great advantage of all you dignitaries, for all men took me for some devilish old fool, in whose presence they could safely say just what they really thought fit to say -- In my notes of Sept 8 which I intended for an Literary and philosophical club a home, I wrote as follows: leaving out only nonessential matter - II "I am most deeply and sorrowfully convinced, that the worst conspiracy we have to fear, is after all not atRichmond but at Washington: and that we are in fact, already under a military despotism, as much worse than that of France, as ours is less reliable and less respectable than theirs; only we are such devilish fools that we have not yet found it out, but time will shew it to us, to our sorrow, if something is not speedily done to suppress it; II II This military despotism which now governs and controls the destiny of the whole country, instead of having no policy as has been charged upon the growing <hr /> 3 power of the country, has now, ever has had, a distinctive, and settled, and terribly inexorable policy, which it still unflinchingly persues; and ever has persued from the beginning of the war; and which it intends to play out to the bitter end, in spite of Presidents, congresses, people, and all together -- These are my two fundamental propositions: I will now very briefly describe first the origin & nature of this despotism and second its policy -- The new theory of our government as well as of all other possible government, in war, throws the whole practical power of the administration under the military power; In peace under our theory, the army is nothing; it is a mere sinecure; if not a mere nonexistance; But in war it at once becomes everything; the sole active and efficient power of the land: it makes no sort of difference how many edicts and decrees and proclamations & statues the civil powers may fulminate: so long as the army exists and its supplies are voted, the whole actual government, will be in the hand of the military commanders, and no where else. so far as the final fate and destiny <hr /> of the nation is concerned: Hence Gen Hallicks jocose reply, (as reported) to the Englishman, who asked what the capital building was for, that "it was the Bakery for the U. S. Army" - though meant for a joke, it expressed a great & most solemn philosophical truth - The capital is, and must be, so long as this war lasts a mere Bakery for the Army, just that and nothing else; and so long as it votes & bakes the bread the leaders of the army alone will do the work of the land & of the ages, in their own way: Thus the whole country in the time of war, becomes one vast military camp; and all laws & statutes whatever become only so many tolerated regulations of the camp; mere camp regulations, whose present use & final destiny lies wholly in the power of the sword, and of those who in fact wield it. But the sword may reach its final end, boldly and directly, as in the case of Ceasar, Cromwell, Bonaparte, and Jeff Davis: or it my reach it with mean and detestable sneaking hypocrisy & intrigue, as it is now attempting to reach it at Washington. Under the Old Slave-ocracy which ruled the country for a whole generation, the soldiers who were educated at West Point were of course in the first instance selected from among the peoples by its almost unerring instincts, then trained to its sentiments & opinions; <hr /> 2 and or course, finally devoted and consecrated to its uses - in most cases successfully so, heart & soul; in others only partially so; But in general, under their guidance & control, West Point and our military schools, as naturally and inevitably educated & turned out those who were at heart, Slaveocrats, or old Hunkers in state policy, as Princeton does those who are Presbyterians, or New Haven those who are Congregationalists, or Cambridge those who are Unitarians. At the opening of this war these military Slaveocrats at heart, were scattered over the whole country, and had the actual practical control of its whole military destiny, which, as I have said, controlled all else: all of their educated military slaveocrats who chanced to be in the South, so far as I know, went heart & soul with the rebellion of the South: Many who were at the North also went heart & soul over to the South: and verry many others were restrained from doing so, by no principles or tastes of their own, but only by their selfish, family & mercenary interests, and their accidental location and official duty while their hearts & souls were as truly with <hr /> the slaveholders, and ever have been, as is that of Beauregard or Jeff Davis; and far more truly & fully, than was that of Stonewall Jackson General Houston & many others at the South, when the rebellion first opened: While but a very small portion of our educated prominent military men of the North, at the opening of the war, still held on to a hearty love of freedom, in the Northern sense of that term, & went heart & soul with the North. For the Slaveocrats of the South while still concocting this conspiracy, had entire control of the government through thirty years of plotting & intrigue, and they were no such fools as to overlook the prospective condition & control of the Army, North as well as South; and they had of course, selected, educated, and appointed, to high places, in the Army, only those whom they supposed would be most likely in the hour of trial, in one way or another to support their interests and directly or indirectly to play into their hands. In a word men whose hearts & souls would in fact be with them, & in the end work for them wherever their hands & swords might chance to be. It seems to me that all this is so perfectly <hr /> 7 apparent & self evident, aside from all the appalling proofs, now around us, that a man who does not at once see it to be so, as soon as it is stated, by his own conscious instincts, is simply a political fool, who has no possible capacity, for the political government & control of men; And if all men do not now see it, they soon will, and to their sorrow too: Most [true?] these Slaveocrats had to make some exceptions to their rule of subserviency & favoritism, in the case of the Army, as well as in the case of the other branches of the public service: But they took good care to make those exceptions as few as possible: barely sufficient decently to cover up the plot: by no means sufficient, to constitute in the army any controling power, either North or South. Hence the peculiar spite and malice of Jeff Davis & co. wherever they discover, a real opponent in the ranks of the army of the North: they regard him as a real apostate from themselves; as sometimes indeed he is; but they always shew that they thought they had reason to expect better things of him: But not a few of our generals have conducted the war, on what the rebels are satisfied to consider, as very genteel & honorable principles: <hr /> and that of course is so conducting it, that they perceive that its final issues will play wholly into their hands For where did ever this or any other political [illegible] smile complacently, on those who so beat the bush, as in fact to scare the ultimate political game out of their own hands? A Northern general of note whom Jeff Davis does not speedily denounce as a clown, and an outlaw & threaten with assassination, or some other dire calamity, is in all probability unfit for his command, and ought to be cashiered a sent home at once. But I will come now more nearly to persons as well as principles: for we, the people of the United States, cannot well afford to Slaughter a hundred thousand of our fathers sons & brothers [illegible] on the battle field and pay out one thousand millions of money, and merely shout for those, whose slaveholding conspirators at the south, and their allies these old Hunker conspirators of the North, with us to shout for, without taking the liberty to use either our own eyes, ears or tongues; grape shot & Bombshells can have but very little respect for grey hairs. or loud hurrahs: and a drowning father, like a dying country, would not ask his children whether they were reputed to have saved him from some slight calamity before, but whether, with outstretched hands, he could induce them to save him from death now. <hr /> 3 I will further say that the persons of whom I am about to speak in all the plainness which becomes a free man, when his dear country is already dying for want of their efficient & hearty aid, are personally wholly unknown, and inoffensive to me: I never even saw them: I never either sought or received a favor or a disfavor from them for myself or any of my friends: Indeed I never in my life sought an office of any sort and never expect to do so: and before the war I had at least a respectable if not an exalted opinion of these very men. I say this only to shew that I have no personal feelings against them; & no personal hopes from their good or ill repute whatever. Still what I may say, may be deemed by others either slanderous or even treasonable: if so I am willing to be imprisoned for it: But as I have been solicited to do it by many gentlemen of more intelligence & influence in such matters than myself, I shall now take the liberty to write down just what I think let it hit whom it will or where it will - But to the point of these northern conspirators: I will also presume in their behalf also, that they may be actuated by a direct conscious conspiracy against the cause & freedom of the North, or only <hr /> by an unconscious, latent festering animus, a sort of fever & ague in their spiritual houses which naturally and instinctively exhibits the same phenomenon; and even more unerringly, though less [incrementally?], works out toward precisely the same ends and results; as a direct conscious conspiracy would do. Indeed I wish now only to judge these men out of their own mouths: For there political organs which they approve and circulate every where, in the army and out of it, persistently declare that the Abolitionists, that is the North, are sure to blame for this war than the South: Now if these Old hunker West Point Generals really believe the organs they must approve, of course they are morally bound to see to it, so far as lies in their power that the North suffers more for the war than the South, which is exactly what, & only what, they are now doing, and have been doing through the whole course of the war, as I will now shew: At first, Old General Scott was at the head of this military Despotism thus trained and prepared for us at the North: not so much by design as by necessity and courtesy: and though far more, at heart in sympathy with the South than with the North, he was not one of their trained men: and he had too much <hr /> 11 character and sense of political justice, and of his official reputation & duty, to go over openly to their cause. Beside his natural [illegible] of tempermant, aside from his advanced age, made him a mere cypher, in such a frantic cause, let him as where he would: and of course he was soon disposed of, or rather made a tool of by the younger and more active conspirators. Suffice it to say that the twenty millions of free men of the north, with a hundred thousand sons and brothers under the sod around their capital, and fifty thousand more sick and maimed in the hospitals, need not now, rub onions in their eyes to get up a cry over old General Scott, who served the slave power most heartily and herocicly on the fields of Mexico, and no less efficiently, though less heroicially, in his Bull run & other blunders, aside from his traitor secretary, with whom he dodged off to Europe instead of delivering him up to be shot - as he ought to have done. But At him [illegible]: His great military Anaconda, long since put his own tail in his own mouth and swallowed himself "sic transit gloria mundi:" <hr /> Among the younger men, McClellan seemed fitted both by nature and education as well as selected by the managers, to take the lead: and Lincoln as he was then situated, could not do otherwise than appoint him: even if he had personally so desired: and the New York Herald was of course the only fit trumpet for such a bugle-horn general, and his devoted allies: McClellan skilled at clothing equipping and drilling & ditching soon got up the best armed, the best equipped, the best paid, the best cared for, the best drilled, and the worst disciplined and most unmanageable, useless, and uncontrolable army the world ever saw: The could shew off most admirably in drill, and in drawing room parades; they could march and countermarch; ditch, and bury their dead to admirable perfection; more heroic or patriotic men, never lived: But still they could not conquer at the first Bull Run, simply because their generals were at heart either traitors or West Point fools who shew at last the disgusting meanness to confess to the world that they were frightened, [illegible] and against their will, into that battle by the cry of the newspapers and outsiders; now A [horse?] that is frightened at a newspaper ought to be punched in the head; much more a general; But what punishmt did the known traitors in that battle receive? Echo answers - what punishment? Divide this disaster between old Scott & McClellan & company as you please, it all at lasts rests with the real spirit of West Point & the men furnished us from that school of traitors or imbeciles: and so of all that followed: <hr /> 4' 13 But of McClellan himself, as I am no military man, I will of course say nothing; except that all the Old Hanker proslavery officers in the army, as well as all its real Rowdies, Bull=Run=Russell, the New York Herald the London Times, Jeff Davis and so and all army contractors, all like him, with good reason: and why should not the loyal men of the North? Why should not I? "I am no military man as Brutus is": and God forbid that a blockaded capital through dreary & disgraceful months, painted [illegible] at Mannassas, and 500,000,000 of money & more than 50,000 green soldiers [illegible], on the Chicahanney, & a foe that accomplished all they aim at in Maryland, & gets 10,000 troops at [Harpers?] Ferry to host, I say God forbid that such facts should incite me to set myself up to judge our generals in war: I am one of your good milk & water Northern [Christians?]; and I believe that war should always results when conducted according to the true principles of military & Christian strategy combined; first, in giving all the advantage to our enemies: because it both improves our patience and <hr /> literally fulfills the command to love our enemies: second we should stop to bury our dead at least, and make a [illegible] game of it, as at Antietam, so as to shew that we love our neighbors as ourselves: And though I am no military man I agree with Bull=Run=Russell, the London Times, Jeff Davis & Co, and all the proslavery officers & all the real rowdies of the Army, and the whole army of contractors and commissaries, who want this war protracted forever, that George B. McClellan is one of the most surprising generals the world ever saw. And I advise our patriot soldiers on the Potomac to fight for him, and him alone; to swear by him, & him alone; and to dig their own graves as fast as they can, & ask no useless and impertinent questions about West=Point strategy; "it is so sweet to die for ones country" -- I do not give the Latin here, for I am writing for American ears: and I wish to be understood, without any effort at "Scholastic Strategy". <hr /> 15 But be this as it may, at present the great effort is to make a hero out of McClellan: & foist him to the top of the next political wave; it is rather hard work to be sure; [illegible] it is the best that can be done. Old General Scott and President Lincoln himself have been persistently used by the partisans of McClelland & his generals as convenient tools in their hands, the one to be appealed too from time to time as the highest military authority of the continent, to sanction their do=nothing and exhaustive policy, & to give some shew of excuse at least, for their most watched and destructive military blunders: While President Lincoln alone, has furnished them with the reliable moral capital, in the shape of honesty & integrity, on the basis of which to call out military supplies & subsidies, on the one hand: and stood himself on the other hand, as a sort of magical conduit or sewer, through which they could pour all the infamy of their accidental or purposed losses and disasters, back upon the heads of the Republican party, nominally in power; till at last, these losses & infamies secured <hr /> whether accidentally or purposely by these conspirators should overwhelm the [Republicans?] with utter annihilation & disgrace which is already well night achieved: Hence we see that both parties alike laud Lincoln but from different motives - the one on the republicans because he is their only hope of final conquest, of the Rebellion - the other the old hunkers because he is their only source of supplies for exhaustion and ultimate compromise. They will only flatter him let him do what he will, & cling to him, so long as they are dependant on him for supplies - and they will curse him & kick him out of doors the moment they see that they can get along without him. Lincoln may fulminate whatever proclamations she may choose, whether good or bad, so long as this Old Hunker conspiracy sees that he holds in his hands their supplies for the army, in other words so long as he stands in the doorway of "Hallecks Bake-house", & they have no other way to get in, they will never break with him, till they have first through him wholly annihilated the party that put him in power & practically taken the power again themselves - How these West Point Old Hunker generals manage by a sort of inevitable necessity to keep at the head of the Army, any one can easily see who reflects on the nature & organisation of the army, the papers they read & the constant necessities under which they are laid. <hr /> 5 But if I have indicated the chief persons in this great drama, we will consider more distinctly their real policy: Their policy, that is the policy of those Old Hunker West=point generals, who in fact now constitute the real government of the Union, & have done for a long time, is surely "to save the Union" they could no more get along without that peculiar catch=word, than they can without Mr Lincoln: both are equally indispensable to their supplies: But how save the Union? that is the question - All loyal men are pouring out their treasure & their blood to save the union by the conquest of the rebels & their speedy subjection to the sovereignty of the Union as it now is - But it is plain that these military dictators & conspirators, have no such idea and never have had - Their plan is and ever has been to save the Union only by exhaustion of the North: and not by the conquest of the South-- For by the one method, that of conquest, the Republicans & war Democrats would inevitably come into political power, & they and their friends <hr /> would be [illegible] forever from all political hope: While by their process of exhaustion, they will first totally annihilate the true loyal party of the north, by the infamies and disasters and ruin their own hands will heap upon them: & then they can most easily compromise with the South, & share the undisturbed rule of the continent with Jeff Davis & co, as in olden time or under a more despotic form: They intend, by affecting a benign horror of shedding human blood, by endless military blunders & delays by enormous expenditures, & disasters, to perfectly exhaust & discourage the loyal north: while still the South is encouraged, by Northern traitors, factions, spies, & contractors (who alone really outnumber the army in the field,) to hold out: and when both parties are sufficiently exhausted: they mean to say to the North, "We cant conquer the South: The best statesmen of Europe told us so at first: but we thought we could: We have now tried it & find we cannot; We are all alike heartily sick of this abolitionism: We see what it has come too: it has cost us more than all the Negroes were ever worth: let us now have an armistice: propose <hr /> 19 reasonable terms to our Southern brethren: & make peace & all go along together again as in the good old days of our fathers:" and as soon as the South sees that the Republican party is in fact forever annihilated, she will gladly come into the Union again, with only some mere formal concessions to her pride: For she would rather rule to=day the whole continent, though these Northern Doughfaces as she used to do, than half of one by herself alone -- so the South will shew her magnamity by electing to the Presidency of the Union the greatest Northern hero such a bloody farce of a war, could botch up -- and for the place: these northern doughfaces will be at least more content again as the lickspittles of this slave power, thus triumphant over us through treason & exhaustion, than they would do without name or power in a land saved to freedom by the direct heroism & conquest of their southern opponents. True Both these parties alike discard all partisan discussions -- the one because it conflicts with their loyal end of conquest - <hr /> the other because it equally and ever more dangerously conflicts with their disloyal end of exhaustion -- For the party that practically bears the sword, needs no discussion -- It can cut its own way with the sword alone in the most quiet indifference so long as supplies are voted. -- And both parties too are equally clamorous for supplies -- "Hurry up your men & means." say both parties alike - the one that they may be used - the other that they may be mashed & exhausted and slaughtered-- And they are succeeding most admirably: Where now are all our most loyal fighting men & generals? The real heroes who have won all our real victories? It is appalling to think of it -- They are either slaughtered in [direful?] combat - allamode "Uriah the Hittite of Olden time & Baker & others of modern times: or left to be cut up and discarded like Pope: or ruthlessly assailed & dismissed like Fremont & others; or caged up with some little insignificant command, or in some petty town, like sheep in a slaughter=pen (till their time for the knife too comes, and almost every battle snaps off a score of them- It would seem the easiest thing in the world to kill a horse or a loyal general in this war: But neither God nor mean seems to have power to kill either a proslavery General or a mule: they run out of every battle so bright and early!! <hr /> 7 25 by the assumption that these West Point Old Hunker Generals, mean by this ever present & speedy exhaustion, and final compromise with the traitors in arms, they are indeed, (attended and able generals, and evince a shrewdness and capacity; and have achieved a steady and unvarying success, befitting the self-complacency & self sufficiency which they every where manifest -- and the world ought to esteem them as the greatest and most successful generals of their age: But on the other hand if their real end is the speedy conquest of the South, they are a set of the most devilish fools that the world ever saw: and if the whole twenty millions of the North have not serve enough to see without going 7 years to West Point that their whole conduct of the war has been but one steady, persistent, awful and hideous blunder, conceived in stupidity, executed in weakness and terminating only in disaster, disgrace and ruin, they are not worth fighting for, and we had better drop our arms at once, and turn them all over to Jeff Davis to be taken care of with the negros, under him. <hr /> I did think I would write to Mr Lincoln when I was in Washington not to let him know these facts: but to let him know that we the people know, & feel them too, as well as himself, & symphatise with him in the perilous position in which he is placed, and are fully prepared for any sudden move by which he may attempt to avert these terrible disasters. But I concluded not to trouble him any more than he is troubled, though I wish he did know exactly what I and thousands of others think of these things. I have spoken this freely & hurriedly to you, my Dear Sir, partly because you suggested it, & partly because it is a relief to me to speak my thoughts to any intelligent man who I know will make no misuse of them: I began by quoting from my notes written more than a month since in Washington: but at last run off to present thoughts, it mattered not where; if you find time & patience to read to this place, please excuse me for not closing long before, as I most certainly intended to have done when I began and believe me truly yours J. B. Turner -- <hr /> 5 21 Judging by facts before the whole country one would suppose that Almighty God, as well as the Power that be, owned a particular spite to every general & officer in the army that is not at least half Old Hunker in his politicks, as well as to every four-footed beast that is not half Jackass in his pedigree: However we do occasionally get rid of a mule & a Hunker commander: We at last got rid of Miles for example at Harpers Ferry, by giving the rebels ten thousand men, to furnish us a fair excuse for shooting him ourselves; It was a good bargain: cheap enough! It we can get all our traitor generals shot at a cost of only ten thousand men each we ought never to complain, as we shall son close up the war. One of our Western generals shot a similar brute with epaulettes on, the other day himself: I am glad of it: If well authenticated facts are to be believed, he ought to have been shot long before he was: though I suppose there will be great Peons sung and a great fuss made over his rotten carcase - because our Western General did not see fit to let the epaletted hog live till he had killed a few thousands of his country men, by due forms of law - <hr /> I am fully aware that such general statements as the foregoing prove nothing: But I am equally aware, that the facts of this war can never be grouped under any other generalization, than one such as the above, no more than the facts of the sky can be generalised on any other theory than that of the copernican system; little flat worlds and honest Patriotic generals as our only theory, our present war, and our present sky are alike an incomprehensible mystery to the whole world: But if the same hearty power which in Mr Buchanans day, was in the cabinet, unscrupulously pushing to the wall & politically cutting of the heads of all opponents -- if I say that same power is now over the army, with its terrible [enquiry?] of secret & literal as well as moral death to all opposers, aiming not at conquest, but at its own game of exhaustion & compromise, then all is plain: Then the utter neglect & refusal to organise the only natural [illegible] and time-honored resource of National defence the two millions of Militia men - The constant sneers at these militia men & their officers as a mode of defences, and <hr /> 23 the persistent neglect still to organise them though they have done nearly all for us that has been done by [land?] coupled with the most persistent defence of the most stupid blunders & treasons of these West=Point fools who have been the cause of nearly all our disgraces & disasters -- all this is plain - For if 2,000,000 militia=men had been at once organised, this "othello's occupation would have been gone", and they would have constantly have [illegible] such an uncontrollable force both of men & native genius in their rear: So all our shameful blunders at Corinth, in Missouri, Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee, Cumberland Gap, and all round the land, as well as the absolute murders of the two Bull Runs, Balls bluff, & our practical total failure (in spite of the noise of the Herald) in Maryland & at Harpers Ferry - indeed all the facts of the whole war fall rationally & easily into line on one theory - but are totally inexplicable on any other - And why should it not be so? it took thirty years hard fighting to [illegible] this same [brotherhood?] out of the Senate and <hr /> the Forums of the nation, and is it natural to suppose it will quietly leave its last stronghold of hope & of power, in which it is safely entrenched sword in hand: This is a kind of Devil that goeth out by no such means: as we shall find to our sorrow: and that it will take off literal heads in the army, just as unscrupulously as it would political ones in the cabinet we shall find out too: Whether it is possible for Mr Lincoln to manage & control this [illegible] of the army, without directly stradling his horse and taking the field in person I do not know: I hope he will succeed some way: his proclamation was a staggering blow to their counsels: though not worth a penny, for the practical freedom of the slave: He is in the worst position ever mortal man was: and if he dont somehow & that speedily too, take this beast of the Army resolutely by the horns, & grasp & hold it firmly, it will use him, just as it did Mr Buchanan in the cabinet, as its mere tool for the practical destruction of the republic, & the institution finally of a Southern despotism over a [illegible] country and a helpless & exhausted north - and all our insane cries to hurry up men & means only help on the [game?], unless we first know how these men & means are to be handled & used - But we will still hope in God <hr /> Postcript Please pardon one word of proof more which I forgot in my haste -- It was self evident to anybody who was half witted that the sole object of the late Rebel raid into Maryland & Kentucky was to get winter supplies - of course the Richmond papers predicted what they ought to do, and bragged about what they would do, solely to deceive our military fools: Johnson in Fredreichsburgh fulminated his proclamation for the same end: and our military fools took it for granted that the Rebels had the kindness to advertise us, of the real programe & intent of the [illegible] so as kindly to put us on our guard: A child could see through it all: fool as I am in military affairs I predicted the final asalt a month ago in Washington City; which is this, namely, Our Sapient West Point men, who know all about military affairs, and nobody else knows anything at all. will allow the Rebels to make their raids into Maryland and Kentucky, get all their winter supplies, and then get in behind them, and achieve great glory in driving them out fully laden, with quite as much loss, and infinitely more disgrace <hr /> on ourside than on theirs: and thus the Rebels will be left substantially safe and sound, for a new campaign in the spring, which these cursed fools or traitors, whichever you please, from West point, will be enabled to shout and parade their victories & keep their places, simply on the ground that they have in fact, somewhat hurried the rebels out of Maryland & Kentucky, with all their plunder intact doing just enough to secure a shout of nominal victory, & their own positions at the head of their armies, ready for a new game of exhaustion in the spring: Thus at all times the Rebels are enabled to accomplish their real end, and we poor devils of the North are called upon to shout only over those unessential incidents of the war, which were absolutely indispensible, to keep these West Point fools in their places: and I now predict again, that these West=Point constables of ours, will still let the rebel burglars escape out of our houses with all their plunder- only hurrying them along enough, to save appearances of official duty, to get up among the people <hr /> an insane shout in their own favor; as the great deliverers of their country: and only one event will interfere with this disgraceful result to our full campaigns: namely if these West Point conspirators, or any one of them, should happen to catch the enemy where he could, at a single blow crush the Rebellion or seem to do it and they, become the hero of the war, and the next President of the Union, in hope at least: he will do that of course: But in all small and indecisive games, the Rebels will be allowed to have their own way, reach their own real ends, and further for us, the grand game of exhaustion: being interfered with by our leaders from time to time only just so far as it is indispensible to save appearances, & keep their places - And all this simply because neither their hearts nor their ultimate convictions, are with us, but with the rebels: They are therefore only doing us the same service, which a negro does a master he has no real faith in and no real affection for - and <hr /> the less he really does, & the less he intends to do, the more careful he is, at every point to say "Master just see what I have done." "Hurrah for McClellan & Buel" - we have chased the Rebels out of Maryland & Kentucky: Glorious victory of our patriot troops!!! So say the papers: -- Well you dambed fools, you have got the thieves out of your house, have you, with all their plunder safely on their backs; without which they must have perished before spring; and instead of shutting the front door, and catching them in the house, your sapient constables took infinite pains, to leave all the doors wide open, and get behind them, and achieve the great glory of driving them out, a little father than they wanted to go - and all this is strategy! What do you know about war!! Have you ever been to west point, where all these [Dogherry?] war constables have been manufactured to order, under the express supervision and care of Jeff Davis & co.? for a whole generation past? get out of the way then you are a fool - you dont know anything about War -- it is insolence for you to have any opinion, much more to express it -- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 30 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Turner to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-11 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506482 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Needs Review Percent Needs Review The percentage of pages with Needs Review status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 200 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/a6ea57c7b11a4a2b145d36a9f3ebca66.pdf 5f87ae8d9189543dca9167f5e89d45f1 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. State of Illinois Executive Department. Springfield Oct 11th 1862 Gen John Wood Springfield Ills Dr Sir:- You will proceed to Tennessee to obtain accurate & complete information in regard to sick & wounded Illinois Soldiers, and also to assist in affording them relief you will send such of them home as you properly can, and you will be allowed reasonable compensation therefore. Please report from time to time. Rich. Yates. <hr /> Copy Gen John Wood trip to Tennessee. Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates to John Wood Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-11 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506483 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. State of Illinois Executive Department. Springfield Oct 11th 1862 Gen John Wood Springfield Ills Dr Sir:- You will proceed to Tennessee to obtain accurate & complete information in regard to sick & wounded Illinois Soldiers, and also to assist in affording them relief you will send such of them home as you properly can, and you will be allowed reasonable compensation therefore. Please report from time to time. Rich. Yates. <hr /> Copy Gen John Wood trip to Tennessee. Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/755dd33c37664da89024d75190ab35cf.pdf ccd5ca82d3608ad341c23d69bafafcdd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource William Douglas Knox to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-11 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506484 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/ac15481b17c87c046327f43e74bc7238.pdf 11ef957e93cdb2d318b6e2f080c9f7ef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource James Refro to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-11 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506485 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/34e94883da6335b9ff9cb15a074213c1.pdf 35e30b5dc94fec9dcc2e7f31c0cef855 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource W. H. Horton to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-11 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506486 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/9bb7c250e44dc8e5034ff5175df66ed3.pdf dbc817d50c1994e343bd11bebc658230 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Head Quarters 4th Divn Dist. W Tenn. Bolivar Oct 11. 1862 His Excy Richard Yates Governor &c Sir I have the honor by request of the 28th Ills Regt. to present you the relics of their Regimental Colors. They have always been found in the thickest of the battle. The State will value them for every fragment has its history. I request that an honorable place may be reserved for them as among the precious things, the jewels of Illinois. Your obt Servt S A Hurlbut Major Genl <hr /> Maj Gen S. A. Hurlbut. Bolivar Oct 11. 62. Presents the colors of the 28th Regt Ill Vols file Ansd Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stephen A. Hurlbut to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-11 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506487 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Head Quarters 4th Divn Dist. W Tenn. Bolivar Oct 11. 1862 His Excy Richard Yates Governor &c Sir I have the honor by request of the 28th Ills Regt. to present you the relics of their Regimental Colors. They have always been found in the thickest of the battle. The State will value them for every fragment has its history. I request that an honorable place may be reserved for them as among the precious things, the jewels of Illinois. Your obt Servt S A Hurlbut Major Genl <hr /> Maj Gen S. A. Hurlbut. Bolivar Oct 11. 62. Presents the colors of the 28th Regt Ill Vols file Ansd Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/8fcbf4290e2d17b9efcb71ae6ebf1017.pdf 90f0080cd5f0e33e3caf2f255a82b878 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource James Wilson to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-11 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506488 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/555253ac2cbfe482d17478161cfcd9f4.pdf b4be6c7d9c9273b61ef11ee7bd1cc289 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Henry H. Henshaw to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-11 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506489 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/aec8b284d1bd676b3a3423b52ee793fd.pdf d67d0d62064f278f21e2ca1d03b824aa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. M. Edmunds to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-11 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506490 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/0610060efdaffc5586a8833ae1897f9a.pdf d7fa928076fbf1f8e6faee223799bfa5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jasper C. Washburn to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-12 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506491 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/1308eb56f847518e40d26d30d7baad2f.pdf e5894dcce44598536642661ed175d657 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert Allen to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-12 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506492 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/2431f4a42f555a0772b2513b6d2f04d8.pdf 18c5000b2827dae21c77c850ff7cb498 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. A. Jordan to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-12 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506493 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/b39f3eb8edd530fe3425eec3407c26ee.pdf 6135ce349095d4af711f6936823452c5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wesley H. Six to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-12 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506494 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/b2467b01ea222a0cdda9692e6d5a6432.pdf 8acca7bbf9a10e7f5d6f0cf6acf0451c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth Blake to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-12 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506495 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/17746e8ee43eca62f991c0a44798313b.pdf 8eda9bab183f85c89dc4cb1f8e54c249 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates to John Mason Loomis Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-13 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506496 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/bd4d05100232d218adb2375b90720cfb.pdf 0a70db44f99d514e563eff6852094703 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. D. Strong to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-13 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506497 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/a8f45407c744d5ca76603b985b938dcb.pdf 637243abb1a0ecf6e8d56555d5867997 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. With H.G. Reynolds 10/26/62 Oct 13 - 1862 Hon. Gov Yates Sir I have just received a letter from Mrs L.A. Alexander of Alton requesting me in most urgent terms to procure from you, or through you, from the proper authority, the discharge of her young brother, Charles Thomas, from the army. He is now and has been for some time past prostrated by sickness. He is my nephew, and I feel a deep interest in his welfare for his sister's sake. She is a widow in feeble health, very weak eyes, and yet is entirely dependant on her needle for the support of herself and little daughter. Charles Thomas is a member of Company D. 52 - Ill. Col. John Logan, now near Memphis. Charles has never intimated a desire to be discharged, but it is believed that justice and mercy call loudly for his discharge. He was beginning to contribute material aid for <hr /> the support of his sister and her daughter when he enlisted, though but sixteen years old Unfortunately at the time, he had a very unpleasant home, and was persuaded to enlist by his older companions, contrary to the known wishes of his sister and friends If he cannot be discharged please let him have a furlow to return to his friends and be cared for until his health is restored. Very respectfully Your Obt Svt. Elias Hibbard Please address Mrs L.A. Alexander Alton Ill. <hr /> Ansd Nov 1/62 32nd Reg Elias Hibbard Oct 13 62 Wishes Gov. to aid him in getting discharge for Chas Thomas of Co D. 32nd Reg who is unfit for duty on acct of sickness & besides the only support of an aged mother. Enclosed letter of Recommend from H.G. Reynolds Address Mrs L.A. Alexander Alton Usual letter and add in this as every other case that a [Commissary?] has just left [&c?] Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elias Hibbard to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-13 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506498 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. With H.G. Reynolds 10/26/62 Oct 13 - 1862 Hon. Gov Yates Sir I have just received a letter from Mrs L.A. Alexander of Alton requesting me in most urgent terms to procure from you, or through you, from the proper authority, the discharge of her young brother, Charles Thomas, from the army. He is now and has been for some time past prostrated by sickness. He is my nephew, and I feel a deep interest in his welfare for his sister's sake. She is a widow in feeble health, very weak eyes, and yet is entirely dependant on her needle for the support of herself and little daughter. Charles Thomas is a member of Company D. 52 - Ill. Col. John Logan, now near Memphis. Charles has never intimated a desire to be discharged, but it is believed that justice and mercy call loudly for his discharge. He was beginning to contribute material aid for <hr /> the support of his sister and her daughter when he enlisted, though but sixteen years old Unfortunately at the time, he had a very unpleasant home, and was persuaded to enlist by his older companions, contrary to the known wishes of his sister and friends If he cannot be discharged please let him have a furlow to return to his friends and be cared for until his health is restored. Very respectfully Your Obt Svt. Elias Hibbard Please address Mrs L.A. Alexander Alton Ill. <hr /> Ansd Nov 1/62 32nd Reg Elias Hibbard Oct 13 62 Wishes Gov. to aid him in getting discharge for Chas Thomas of Co D. 32nd Reg who is unfit for duty on acct of sickness & besides the only support of an aged mother. Enclosed letter of Recommend from H.G. Reynolds Address Mrs L.A. Alexander Alton Usual letter and add in this as every other case that a [Commissary?] has just left [&c?] Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/983a71be9584fb0b6cb086aa6a21448b.pdf e69db4689a068bc21d6c76740393a9e4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A. Foreman to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-13 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506499 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/dcef16b1ee3196f5db00627aac592e5d.pdf 6e1c2c6d541ceee2f60116d8e530af61 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource F. Maro to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-13 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506500 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/0ab65ba6080c610f3ce21f967bed012f.pdf bc25560d030c0c9724c8db0382f0fc80 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Petition of John B. Preston and others to Richard Yates, enclosure Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-13 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506501 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/8d26bf7be7c405aee8a8771b9617be08.pdf 7992be27197cf003b7385252cfa1c10c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource G. R. Benton to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-13 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506502 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/2b254f1504e50db8491bad2665b08fb9.pdf 93ca18065d0fa60ce3342c332317dc9c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George W. Rives to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-13 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506503 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/49907ac5433cdfa629246c896c2c794a.pdf f68f170362ffdb75116c822052a748fd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource James M. Mitchell to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-13 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506504 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/c9f249e1c26a8cf2fdd8a3fe883c6a1c.pdf 726cda17bee98748e5df98459dd79d11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource W. W. Allen to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-13 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506505 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/cd98adbb663bc3dba26def26c873261e.pdf 32d319e39fb7e4fdd7978fa384c0f4ac Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S. A. Buckmaster to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-14 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506506 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing