- GLC#
- GLC02461.12-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- April 28, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, 1830-1864
- Title
- to John Letcher
- Place Written
- Salem, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 30 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
General Jenkins requests arms from Letcher, Governor of Virginia. Reports that many of his men are not armed. Writes, "My command being made up of a lot of Refugees who have lost everything- We stand but little chance in the... competition for arms from other [struck: & men] Commands." Docket from 9 May 1863 notes that Jenkins's application has been declined.
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