Letter from J. B. Wallace to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; March 23, 1863

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Letter from J. B. Wallace to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; March 23, 1863

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People

Bowman, Robert Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867 Wallace, J. B.

Events

Military Events--Military discharge Starvation

Military Units

Confederate States of America. Army Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi. Light Artillery Regiment, 1st Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi. Light Artillery Regiment, 1st. Battery I

Occupations

Lawyers Millers

Places

Military training camps--Camp Lee (Miss.)Vicksburg (Miss.)

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Enslaved people Impoverished people Military Status--Military families

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Camp Lee, near Vicksburg Mis March 23rd ^1863^

Mr John J Pettus, Esq^r.

Honorable Sir, [gap] I write to you to know if you have the power to detail or di^s^charg any person from the army provided you have a sufficient showing in writing to convince you that ~~such~~ the services of such person are particularly and ne-cessarily required at home.

I will inform you that I have been eng-aged in milling, grinding and sawing for a large settlement for twelve or thir-teen years past and that there is no mill within ten or eleven miles of my mill, and no person that understands keeping up the machinery of a mill, in that country, and that I can get no one to take charge of the same,

I am now and have been for a few months in the army I was detailed last summer to srun my mill and have not been in the army but a few months, I have received several letters from home since I have been out, stating that my mill would soon cease grinding

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J. B. Wallace

for want of some one to keep it in order and that many poor families wose hus-bands are in the army and who have no slaves nor son large enough to go to mill will suffer for want of bread in case my my mill should cease to run which it is bound to do soon ^as it^ gets a little out of order there being no no person in that neighborhood that can repair it.

The patrons of ^my^ mill wishes to know if by petition I can be detailed or discharged from the army to grind for them. write to me and let me know ~~if you cant if a petition will do any~~ if you can do any thing for them.

Address. J B Wallace Vicksburg
Miss. Care of Capt Bowman
Co I. Withers Artillery