Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 to E. S. Burford
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02700 Author/Creator: Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 Place Written: Sparta, Tennessee Type: Letter signed Date: 2 May 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 25.2 x 19.9 cm. Order a Copy
Morgan writes to Burford, assistant adjutant general. Relates his failure to comply with General Orders No. 4. Writes, "I would beg leave to say that, with half a Regiment at one point & half at another, with a command scattered over a line of County nearly a hundred & fifty miles in extent, picketing, doing courier duty, scouting, and guarding commissary trains, it is, in my opinion, an impossibility for them to comply fully with the provisions of that order." Reports that to comply with the orders, he would have to place very regimental commander in his division under arrest. Docketed in pen and what appears to be blue crayon.
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