Letter from F. C. Pinkston in Mount Meigs, Alabama, to Captain Henry Semple in Wartrace, Tennessee.
During the Civil War, Semple served as a captain of an artillery battery organized in Montgomery (known as Semple's Battery). He was later appointed a major and transferred to Mobile. In the letter Pinkston asks Semple to grant his two sons a furlough so they can "attend to some business i...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/4161 |