Letter from Charles D. Fontaine to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; June 1, 1864

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Letter from Charles D. Fontaine to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; June 1, 1864

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People

Clark, Charles, 1811-1877 Dandridge, P. B.Fontaine, Charles D.McCardle, William H.McGuirk, John

Events

Military Events--Commission Resignation Military Events--Military transfer Political Office--Appointment to office

Military Units

Confederate States of America. Army Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi. Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Mississippi. Militia Mississippi. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 3rd

Organizations

Boards of Medicine Confederate States of America--Army Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office Confederate States of America--Bureau of Conscription Military Headquarters

Occupations

Medical Profession Medical Profession--Physicians Medical Profession--Surgeons

Places

Mississippi--Noxubee County. Macon Mississippi--Pontotoc County. Pontotoc

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Military Families People with Disabilities

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Pontotoc June 1. 1864

Governor,

My Brother in Law, Doctor P. B. Dandridge, who was lately Sur=geon of M^cQuirk's Regiment of Missⁱ State Cavalry, just before the transfer of that Regiment to the Con. States, tendered his resignation on Surgeon's Certificate of disability. He has never received any acceptance of his resignation, or notification of any other dispostion having been made of it. He now asks that if it has not been acted on that he may be assigned to duty with the State troops who have not been transfered. After the tender of his resignation, Dr Dandridge finding his health likely to improve sufficiently to enable him again to enter the service in his professional Capacity, applied for an invitation to appear for Ex=amination before a Medical Board of the Con. States. This application is now refused, as we infer, on account of some late order limiting invita=

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tion to such as are in the Military Service of the C: S:, or it may be because there is no Vacancy. He has therefore only the alternative of reposting to the Con=Script Bureau to be desposed of, unless You will relieve him of this necessity by assingning him to duty in the Military service of the State

That You will appreciate the [proffsional?] Sensitiveness which prefer, ser=ving the Country in that Calling ~~in that Calling~~ in which he has aspired to and attained [?], to going into the ranks, and which impels him to make this application, I fully believe; and therefore take the liberty to ask as a personal favour that you will assign him to duty under his commission if in Your power.

Very Respectfully
Your friend & Sv^t

Cha^s D Fontaine

His Excellency
Cha^s Clarke
Gov. &c

P S.—Please reply at Your Earliest Convenence
C D F

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Pontotoc Miss
June 7 1864

Hon C D Fontaine

Inquiring about the resignation of Surgeon
P B Dandridge
=
Refer to Adjt [him?] for examination—
C

Hd Qs State of Miss. Macon June 7 1864.
Answered—No record of a Capt [?] are the appointment of another surgeon—

W H M Cardle
Adjt Genl