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Letter of recommendation from Sterling Price to General S. Cooper regarding Mr. John W. Polk for a position within the Quarter Master Department of his army. Price says Folk is of "high character," "excellent business capacity and habits," "perfect sobriety" and deserves a position where he can be both useful and compensated. Grenada, Mississippi. January 5, 1853.
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Grenada, Jay. 5, 1853 General I would respectfully but confidently recommend Mr John W. Polk for appointment in the Quarter Master’s Department, or any other branch of the Service. He is a gentleman of high character, excellent business capacity and habits, & perfect sobriety. He has been connected, with the Army under my Command, in fine capacity or other, for about one year, serving always without pay, but the loss of most of his large estates in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, & Louisiana, makes it altogether just that he should be put in some position where he might not only Continue to be useful to the Country, but recieve some compensation for such services, as he may render. I regret that there is not some vacancy in my Corps to which I might recommend him for appointment I am very respectfully Yr obt svt. Sterling Price Maj. Genl. Genl S. Cooper A. O. I. Genl. Richmond Virginia
Creation Date
1-5-1863
City
Grenada
County
Grenada
State/Province
Mississippi
Country
United States
Creator Life Dates
1809-1867
Keywords
Sterling Price, General S. Cooper, John W. Polk, Quarter Master, Grenada, Mississippi, Richmond, Virginia, 05 January 1853, 1853, recommendation, Confederate States Army, Samuel Cooper, General Samuel Cooper, John Polk
Resource Identifier
080418-01
Date Digital
May 2014
Document Type
Manuscript
Disciplines
Military History | Social History | United States History
Format (medium)
manuscript
Format (IMT)
Language
en-us
Digitization Specifications
800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.
Source
The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.
Recommended Citation
Price, Sterling, "Letter of recommendation from Sterling Price to General S. Cooper regarding Mr. John W. Polk for a position within his Quarter Master Department. Grenada, Mississippi. January 5, 1863." (1863). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 253.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/253
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