Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Bush Jones from the headquarters of the 9th Alabama Battalion in camp near Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Governor John Gill Shorter in Alabama.
In the letter, Jones asks the governor to intercede in St. Clair County and punish the "band of traitors and deserters, enemies to our country and its cause, who are pillaging, robbing, harassing, and intimidating the families of the loyal citizens and soldiers from that county." A transcr...
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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/6477 |