Letter from S.C. Donaldson in Marion, Alabama, to Thomas H. Watts in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Identifier
Q0000149949_Q0000149950
Title
Letter from S.C. Donaldson in Marion, Alabama, to Thomas H. Watts in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Type
Text
Creator
S.C. Donaldson
Date
1864-08-04
Description
S.C. Donaldson was elected as an assistant instructor at the University of Alabama, and he is writing to Governor Watts to ask that he may be discharged from service from the Confederate Government to assume his post at the University.
Format
Correspondence; letter
Language
eng
Place
Marion, Alabama
Publisher
Alabama Department of Archives and History. (electronic version)
Contributor
Daniel Wilson; Daniel Cooper
transcription
At Mr L.N Walthall's,
Marion, Ala, Aug.4, 1864
To
His Excellency,
Thomas H Watts,
Governor of Alabama.
Sir:
I have the honor to enclose to your Excellency a copy of my notification of election as an Assistant Instructor in the University of Alabama. I have accepted the appointment, but cannot enter upon its duties without a Detail or Discharge, from the Civil Service under the Confederate Government, to which I am liable by the decision of the Medical Examining Board. I was regularly enrolled at Camp Buckner, on the 14th of May last, but have never received an appointment x under the Government, and am now under Furlough. As Governor of the State, and, ex Officio, Head of its Military School, the University, I am informed that you have the power to grant a Discharge or Detail in such cases. If you think this a fit case for the exercise of such a power, you will oblige me by sending me such a paper as will enable me to report myself at Tuskaloosa for duty at the proper time. If I am not adopting the proper course in addressing you, will you have the goodness to advise me how I may best accomplish my object?
It is proper to state, that the Faculty, in electing me, were aware of my position under the Confederate Government, and believed that a Detail or Discharge could be had for me.
With great regard,
Your obed't servant,
S.C. Donaldson.
Marion, Ala, Aug.4, 1864
To
His Excellency,
Thomas H Watts,
Governor of Alabama.
Sir:
I have the honor to enclose to your Excellency a copy of my notification of election as an Assistant Instructor in the University of Alabama. I have accepted the appointment, but cannot enter upon its duties without a Detail or Discharge, from the Civil Service under the Confederate Government, to which I am liable by the decision of the Medical Examining Board. I was regularly enrolled at Camp Buckner, on the 14th of May last, but have never received an appointment x under the Government, and am now under Furlough. As Governor of the State, and, ex Officio, Head of its Military School, the University, I am informed that you have the power to grant a Discharge or Detail in such cases. If you think this a fit case for the exercise of such a power, you will oblige me by sending me such a paper as will enable me to report myself at Tuskaloosa for duty at the proper time. If I am not adopting the proper course in addressing you, will you have the goodness to advise me how I may best accomplish my object?
It is proper to state, that the Faculty, in electing me, were aware of my position under the Confederate Government, and believed that a Detail or Discharge could be had for me.
With great regard,
Your obed't servant,
S.C. Donaldson.