Letter from W. H. S. Taylor to L. S. Joynes, 1864 December 7

Authors

W. H. S. Taylor
J. Calvert

Files

Personal Name Recipient

Joynes, L. S. (Levin Smith)

Date

1864-12-07

Description

Letter from W. H. S. Taylor to L. S. Joynes informing him that receipts for the effects of deceased soldiers should be submitted in duplicate.

Transcription

Treasury Department Second Auditor's Office Richmond, Va Dec 7 1864 Sir, Your letter of the 5th in reply to mine of the 1st inst is just rec'd. The list of names furnished you were of soldiers exclusively from Georgia, and therefore does not necessarily include all who have died in your Hospital. We are taking up the Final statements, which were reported to the Office by the Surgeons of Hospitals at the date of the death in the order of the States. [underscored] Your receipts from the Quarter Master should have been taken in duplicate, [underscored] one of which should be sent to this Office in order to a proper accounting therefor with the representatives of the deceased. I enclose copies of your Inventories now on file in the Office for the Effects of N. R Coleman, Jno. R. McKee, & Jno J. Watson which you could not find on your books. Whilst assured that you can explain all to my satisfaction, I must presume that you are no less liable as a contract Hospital for the preservation and disposition of the Effects of the decd. than Confederate Hospitals. over. W.H.S. Taylor Auditor L T. Cahal Chief of Div: Deceased Soldiers To: L.S. Joynes M.D. Surgeon in charge "Medical College Hos: Richmond, Va [Endorsement:] W.H.S. Taylor 2d Auditor C.S. Treasury relating to effects of de- ceased soldiers. [underscored] Richmond Dec. 7 1864 Cahal

Corporate Name Subject

Medical College of Virginia -- History -- 19th century

Topical Subject

Medical colleges -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- Archives

Geographic Subject

Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Archives; Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals

Corporate Medical Subject

Medical College of Virginia -- history

Topical Medical Subject

Schools, Medical -- history -- Virginia

City/Location

Richmond (Va.)

Original Item Size

2 p.

Genre

letters (correspondence)

Local Genre

text; archives

Type

Text

Digital Format

application/pdf

Rights Statement URL

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Rights

This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.

Collection

Sanger Historical Files (1859-1865), Excerpts

Physical Folder

Civil War Soldiers

Source

Original letter: Letter from W. H. S. Taylor to L. S. Joynes, 1864 December 7; War, Civil Soldiers; Sanger Historical Files, Accession Number # 82/Jan/1, Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.

File Name

san_cwsoldiers_18641207.pdf