E. W. Johns letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0757
Scope and Contents note
A letter dated 20 August 1863, from Johns in Richmond, to Messers M. and E. Myers, Petersburg, Virginia, requesting them to deliver whiskey to the Confederate Army's medical department.
Dates
- 1863 August 20
Biographical/Historical note
E. W. Johns was born in Maryland in 1827. Prior to the Civil War, he served in the United States Army as a surgeon and was part of the garrison stationed in the Milam and Williamson District in Texas in 1850 and was the Post Surgeon at Fort Laramie, Nebraska in 1860. During the Civil War he served as Surgeon and Medical Purveyor for the Confederate States Army in Richmond, Virginia. He died in Richmond in June of 1892 at the age of 66.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 item, 1 piece)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
A letter dated 20 August 1863, from Johns in Richmond, to Messers M. and E. Myers, Petersburg, Virginia, requesting them to deliver whiskey to the Confederate Army's medical department.
Provenance
Unknown
Processed by
unknown
- Title
- Guide to the E.W. Johns Letter
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- December 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository