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Letter from Peter Peterson to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton Requesting the Back Pay of His Invalid Brother, Samuel Peterson, to Help Pay the Medical Bills Due After His Return from Andersonville Prison

Record Group 94: Records of the Adjutant General's OfficeSeries: Letters ReceivedFile Unit: File for Samuel Peterson, 8th USCT Infantry Regiment

New York May the 24th 1865.

To the Hon. E M Stanton Secretary of War

I take the liberty to address myself to your Honor, stating that my brother [underline] Samuel Peterson [/underline], coloured, has been drafted and served in Comp. H. Eight U. S. Regt. Infantry since 1863. He was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of McAllister Florida, and was send from there to Andersonville as a prisoner, where he was kept from that time until the fourth of March last. He reached the Union lines on the 15th of March as a paroled prisoner and reached his home at Perth Amboy N. Jersey on the 18th last. All his expenses did fall upon me, being a servant myself. I have been employed for more that 12 years in the service of Mr. U. A. Murdock President of the Continental Bank N. Y. which gentleman advised me to address your Honor direct. I was obliged to hire a nurse for 58 days at the rate of $1.50 and board. The doctor's bill will be very heavy on me. So I do not know what to do to help myself. Several leading merchants in this city besides Mr. Murdock my employer and Colonel Cannon assure me that they are confident your Honor will do something in my behalf. In the last place I suggest that my brother [underline] Samuel Peterson [/underline] has never received more than two months pay since he entered the Service of the United States.

Respectfully

Your Obedient Servant

Peter Peterson

313 Fifth Avenue N. Y.

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From Andersonville to the Sultana – The Story of William French Dixon of Mount Vernon, Indiana

From Andersonville to the Sultana – The Story of William French Dixon of Mount Vernon, Indiana

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Traveling for literature!

Are you a reader like I am? Do you love books and literature? I do, and I enjoy traveling to places where writers, or their characters are from! Recently on a trip to Perryville, Missouri, we stopped on our way back at Chester, Illinois to see the Popeye Museum. I have a story telling all about the stop in the upcoming issue of Senior News & Times. Chester, Illinois The cartoonist, Elzie…

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Book Review: Alex Grecian's The Black Country

Book Review: Alex Grecian’s The Black Country

Second in the Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad historical mystery series and revolving around Inspector Walter Day whose case takes him to the British Midlands in March 1890.

My Take

It’s an interesting combination of immature writing with a tension-filled plot that kept me intrigued. Grecian certainly kept the tension up as he slowly, slowly dribbled out the information on the identities of the…

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New Port Richey, Florida to Indianapolis, Indiana- A Snowbird Adventure

New Port Richey, Florida to Indianapolis, Indiana- A Snowbird Adventure

2016 Spring Snowbird RV Trip North – New Port Richey, FL to New England via Indianapolis

Part I – New Port Richey, Florida to Indianapolis, Indiana is now complete. 17 days, five campgrounds and 1,034 miles. Photos, costs, links to our Day Trips and other information about the trip and stopovers on the following pages on our website.

Interstate Rest Areas List on I-75, I-64 and I-65 in Georgia,…

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Are you in A Quandary? Don't Know What to get that Person Who Has Everything?

I know here it is two weeks before the silly season and you are sitting in front of your computer trolling through websites, beating your head against your hands wondering what to get that person who has everything. It can be frustrating at best. Here you have Aunt Susie who just lost a loved one- Well as they say, I have a book for that.

Pennies From Heaven

You say well I have cousin Joe who…

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Confederate prison camp commander Henry Wirz is executed

On this day in 1865, Henry Wirz, a Swiss immigrant and the commander of Andersonville prison in Georgia, is hanged for the murder of soldiers incarcerated there during the Civil War. Wirz was born in Switzerland in 1823 and moved to the United States in 1849. He lived in the ...