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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Richmond home guard of 1861 . (search)
The Richmond home guard of 1861.
[Copy.] Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, August 15, 1891. Colonel Joseph dare, War Department, War Records Office, Washington, D. C.:
Colonel: Your letter to the postmaster at Richmond, dated the 1st instant, with his reply of the 12th, and a note from Mr. Brock, Secretary of the Southern Historical Society, enclosed to me at my residence in Washington and forwarded thence, has reached me at this place, where I am spending a short season of recreation.
I take pleasure in giving the information you request touching the Home Guard of Richmond, though I must do so entirely from memory, as I have no papers here; indeed, those that I had, relating to this matter, have been lost or stolen.
The Home Guard was an organization intended for local defence at Richmond, and was commanded by myself under a commission from the State of Virginia.
At the beginning of the war I was President of the James River and Kanawha Company—an office which I had
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)