Letter from Lieutenant D. W. Lamkin to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; July 30, 1864

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Letter from Lieutenant D. W. Lamkin to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; July 30, 1864

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Burrus, Unknown Clark, Charles, 1811-1877 Haynes, M. D.Lamkin, D. W.Wards, Unknown

Events

Crime Crime--Arson Criminal Procedure Criminal Procedure--Pardon Criminal Procedure--Parole Criminal Procedure--Release Emancipation and self emancipation

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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 United States. Army

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Jails

Occupations

Law Enforcement Law Enforcement--Sheriffs Legal Profession--Judges Legal Profession--Lawyers

Places

Alabama--Lee County. Opelika Alabama--Mobile County. Mobile Mississippi--Clarke County. Enterprise Mississippi--Clarke County. Quitman Mississippi--Lee County. Tupelo Mississippi--Noxubee County. Macon Mississippi--Warren County. Vicksburg Mississippi--Yazoo County

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African Americans African Americans--Enslaved people Military Status--Military families

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Opelika Ala July 30^th/64

To
G^ov Cha^s Clark
Macon Miss

Dear Sir

I address you an informal letter to beg of you to pardon or release a Negro Boy of mine confined in the Macon Jail if it is within your power. I will give you the circumstances of the case—I live in Yazoo Co. and when the Yankess came there they took all the Negroes I had as well as every thing else [?], I had I was Beseiged at Vicksburg at the time and when I left for the Army again my friend Judge Burrus gave me the boy "Wash" to wait on me, and while at Enterprise the boy married a girl ^Col Wards^—We were then ordered to Mobile and after stay-ing there sometime, the boy ran away to Col Wards, I had written to Col. Ward to catch him which he

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did and confine him in the Quitman jail and in a very few days afterwards the jail was burned and all the Negroes admited being accessory to the act—well my boys offence was small and he would not hardly have burned the jail without being persuaded into it, besides the Sheriff of Clark says he was in only a short time before the occurence so it would seem ^as^ the plot was made up before his arrival—I send the Sheriffs Letter to me—on the above grounds I would most respectfully beg his being paroled, besides my situation I am an officer in the Army and I need his services very much to Cook Wash & C for me besides I need in [unclear] much indeed in the long marches I have had to take lately ^about^ Tupelo & up here & will probably be in other long marches soon and in

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I have not got the money to pay jail fees and also the Laws and Lawers fees to get him out of such scrape, besides my expenses traveling to attend to his case— have lost all my property since the war began except for some land, I have a family ^in Yazoo City^ worth out any income excepting my pay as Lieut and an occasional speculation which are very few with an officer as you may know—I refer you to Col M D Haynes who is my friend at Macon & Major Power of our Regt—If you release him have him turned over to Col Haynes whome you will please to take charge of and there forward to me here or write me of him

Your Obedient Svt

D W Lamkin
Lieut Co "I" 1^st Miss
Light Arty Regt

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Lt Lamkin