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Askew writes to several correspondents regarding some business matters and payments. Letter on stationary featuring political flag of the Confederate States of America and entitling reading "Head Quarters Chatham Artillery." Chatham Artillery was a militia organization from Savannah Georgia that entered service for the Confederacy in 1862.

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Head Quarters,

Chatham Artillery,

Camp Claghorn Isle of Hope

January 9 1862

Mess Nevitt Lathrop Magen

Enclose please find your Bill against Chatham Artillery, certify to by me, which please present to J.M. Cunningham at Rail Road Bank for payment, please send to me the bill contract by the “Flay Committee” and I will endeavor to have it speedily settled.

Yours Respectfully

Tho. A. Askew

O.S. C.S.A.

Creation Date

1-1-1900

City

Savannah

County

Chatham

State/Province

Georgia

Country

United States

Keywords

Chatham Artillery, Camp Cleghorn, Camp Claghorn, 1862, J.M. Cunningham, Nevitt, Lathrop, Magen, bill, Thomas A. Askew

Resource Identifier

070425-16

Date Digital

10-6-2013

Document Type

Manuscript

Disciplines

Military History | Political History | Social History | United States History

Publisher

Wofford College

Format (medium)

manuscript

Format (IMT)

PDF

Language

en-US

Digitization Specifications

600ppi or 800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; Original converted to JPEG with Irfan View, Fast Stone, or GIMP software. JPEGs compiled in PDF using 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.

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

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