2020-09 Putnal
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War-date Confederate Government letter refusing to pay for the transportation home of the remains of her veterans who were killed at the battle of Antietam, 1p. 4to., written by Capt. David H. Wood, "Transportation Office C. S. A., Quartermaster's Department, Richmond, Va., Sept. 24, 1862," to Major Henderson Moffett Bell, at Staunton, Va., reading, in full: "The Secretary of War has forbidden the transportation of the remains of deceased officers & soldiers at the expense of the Government…D. H. Wood, Capt. & a. q. m." Removed from the military document scrap album archive of Confederate Brig. Gen. Henry B. Davidson. A bit wrinkled, else VG.
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