Letter from Isaac Applewhite to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 6, 1862
Title
Letter from Isaac Applewhite to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 6, 1862
Subject
Military police; Mississippi. Governor; Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans
Description
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Columbia, Mississippi, concerning the need for mounted rangers to police local African Americans and disaffected citizens.
Creator
Applewhite, Isaac
Publisher
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. (electronic version); Mississippi Digital Library. (electronic version)
Date
1862-06-06
Contributor
Funding for this project provided by The Dale Center for Study of War and Society-USM, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the Mississippi Digital Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the Watson-Brown Foundation
Rights
NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Language
English
Identifier
mdah_757-942-01-11
Coverage
1862
Text
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Columbia Marion co Miss,
June 6th /62
His Excellency Gov. Pettus
Jackson Miss.
Governer
There is greatly needed in this county a company of mounted rangers 1st" to keep The negroes in awe—who are getting quite impudent, our proximity to The enemy has had a perceptible import-ence upon them—2 To restrain disaf-fected citizens who I am sorry to say are too numerous—3 To aid in returning to the service furloughed soldiers where time has expired but who refuse to report themselves to their respective commands—This lost class is getting to be numerous and there seeing at present To be no efficient remedy for the evil—
Now without vanity I am the man to get the company up—I have four sons in the army the youngest only sixteen also a son-inlaw & fifteen nephews—I am a cotton factor (I might have added[ex.) of the firm of Applewhite bros. & co. for N.Orleans—have retired to This my native county, with a wife and five little ones from the storm of war and would like to be useful to my country in her
Page 2:
Time of trial—(I am partially deaf, and fifty, so that I would not be rec,d in the regular service)
Now if I had a commission and author-ity to raise a company say of twenty or thirty, not subject to conscription, to arm and equip themselves and range from the Jackson R. road to Pearl river I think the thing could be easily done and I could thereby render my country some service
Yours Truly
Isaac Applewhite
Raise the Compa-ny and is will be Recvd & when in active service will recvd pay & rations, as in Confd service
Answered
June 18th/62—
Columbia Marion co Miss,
June 6th /62
His Excellency Gov. Pettus
Jackson Miss.
Governer
There is greatly needed in this county a company of mounted rangers 1st" to keep The negroes in awe—who are getting quite impudent, our proximity to The enemy has had a perceptible import-ence upon them—2 To restrain disaf-fected citizens who I am sorry to say are too numerous—3 To aid in returning to the service furloughed soldiers where time has expired but who refuse to report themselves to their respective commands—This lost class is getting to be numerous and there seeing at present To be no efficient remedy for the evil—
Now without vanity I am the man to get the company up—I have four sons in the army the youngest only sixteen also a son-inlaw & fifteen nephews—I am a cotton factor (I might have added[ex.) of the firm of Applewhite bros. & co. for N.Orleans—have retired to This my native county, with a wife and five little ones from the storm of war and would like to be useful to my country in her
Page 2:
Time of trial—(I am partially deaf, and fifty, so that I would not be rec,d in the regular service)
Now if I had a commission and author-ity to raise a company say of twenty or thirty, not subject to conscription, to arm and equip themselves and range from the Jackson R. road to Pearl river I think the thing could be easily done and I could thereby render my country some service
Yours Truly
Isaac Applewhite
Raise the Compa-ny and is will be Recvd & when in active service will recvd pay & rations, as in Confd service
Answered
June 18th/62—