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Pontoosuc Ill
Sept 1st 1862
His excellency,
Richard Yates,
Governor of Illinois:-
Sir,
Inclosed please find a recommendation from the officers of the Iowa 7th Regiment Infantry & from the officers of Company D of such regiment, of my son Foster Walker of this place, which I trust will meet favorable consideration. He would have been promoted in his own Company after the battle of Belmont, if he had not been absent a prisoner of war, I am not versed in the Regulations for promotions & if this application is not properly made, I hope you will be so kind as to inform me of the true cousre to be pursued. If necessary I can procure a petition with 500 or more names, & can send recommendations
from prominent citizens of this (Hancock) & Adams county. If I have applied to the wrong place & should apply to the war department I also hope you will direct me in the matter & in that event forward these papers to the proper offices or to me with directions where to apply.
Yours respectfully &c
Henry Walker.
Henry Walker
Pontoosuc Ill Sep 1/62
Recommending his son Foster Walker for comiss. in new Regt. encloses list of officers of 7th Iowa.
Ansd. Sept. 18.
must first be & then appln for transfer