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- Collection:
- Civil Unrest in Camilla, Georgia, 1868 : Reconstruction, Republicanism, and Race
- Title:
- Telegram: Albany, Georgia, to Brevet Captain M. Frank Gallagher, [Atlanta, Georgia], 1868 Sept. 21
- Creator:
- Howard, O. H.
- Date of Original:
- 1868-09-21
- Subject:
- Freedmen--Georgia--Violence against
Military assistance
Reconstruction--Georgia
Political violence--Georgia--Camilla
Georgia--Race relations
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
Gallagher, M. Frank - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Mitchell County, Camilla, 31.23129, -84.21046
- Medium:
- telegrams
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
text/html - Description:
- In this telegram dated September 21, 1868, Brevet Major O.H. Howard, a sub-assistant comissioner for the Georgia Freedman's Bureau whose assigned district included Camilla, writes to Brevet Captain M. Frank Gallagher, an adjutant to Caleb C. Sibley, Georgia's asisstant commissioner for the Freedman's Bureau. Howard briefly tells Gallagher that if troops are not sent to protect the freedmen in Camilla, he will resign his office in the Bureau.
Digital image and transcription created by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001 of a photocopy held by DeSoto Trail Regional Library of an original record held by the National Archives. - Local Identifier:
- cam018
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/zlcu/id:cam018
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_zlcu_cam018
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlcu_cam018/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Records. National Archives and Records Administration, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 page/leaf
- Holding Institution:
- De Soto Trail Regional Library System
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Telegram
Albany, Ga. [Georgia], Sept [September] 21. '68 [1868]
Bt Capt [Brevet Captain] M. Frank Gallagher
A.A.A.G.
Unless ample protection is immediately afforded the Freedmen; I must respectfully but earnestly request to be relieved from further duty in this Bureau.
[Signed] (signed) O. H. Howard
Bt. Maj. [Brevet Major] -- U.S.A. [United States of America]
S.A.C [Sub Assistant Commissioner]
A true copy
M Frank Gallagher.
Bt. Capt [Brevet Captain] U.S.A. [United States of America]
A.A.A.G.