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W.P. VanDever is informing Gov. Watts about the promotion in rank and pay raise of a Confederate soldier.
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A letter from Caspar W. Jones to Governor Watts requesting that Ridley Barron be exempted from his service in the "Second Class Militia" of Alabama.
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Governor of Alabama, Thomas H. Watts, warns the citizens of Mobile of the impending attack of the Union Army. In his letter, he warns women and children to flee the city and move into the interior part of the state.
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Tom Ashe writes to the governor regarding the town jailor, postmaster, and shoemaker Mr. Ross, trying to obtain a new exemption for Ross from military service based on a newly passed act by the Confederate Congress.
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Browder encloses instructions from F.S. Blount, impressment agent, not to send enslaved workers to Mobile. Browder also notes to Governor Watts how little time he has to do his duties as impressment agent in Marengo County because of his work in medicine ("Physic").
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In the letter, Whitman tells Governor Watts about the recent receipt of a company of youths between the ages of 16-18. Whitman asks the Governor if he has the authority to conscript them once they turn 18, because many of the boys are asking him if they will receive a signing bounty as other soldiers. Whitman also asks about being stationed in Montgomery.
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Clarke is asking whether an order "to prevent extortion" is still in force, apparently regarding food provisions; he asks whether to inform the assessor if so. Governor notes answer on the back of the letter.
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A letter in response to "An Act to Authorize the Enrollment of the Creoles of Mobile," noting that the undersigned, whose name is illegible, can raise at least two companies of Creole men if the government agrees to "immediate reception in the State Service" and the regular pay of soldiers in the Confederate Army.
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In the letter. W.G. Delaney writes to Governor T.H. Watts because he has been medically discharged from the military, but sees that all state officers who do not volunteer will get their certificate of exemption revoked. He writes to clarify his status with the governor.
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Young M. Rabb, an enslaver in Conecuh County, writes to Governor Watts to concerns regarding impressed slave labor in the county. He argues that Conecuh has already sent many enslaved laborers to service. He also complains that enslavers are not being paid for impressed labor.
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David Atkins is asking Governor Thomas Watts if he can pay a sum of money to the State rather than sending one of his enslaved workers to Mobile. One he sent before died of measles, and his enslaved workers refuse to go for fear to illness or death.
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David Atkins is asking Governor Thomas Watts if he can pay a sum of money to the State rather than sending one of his enslaved workers to Mobile. One he sent before died of measles, and his enslaved workers refuse to go for fear to illness or death.
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Letter regarding Col. Millhouse taking important workers away from the Selma Arsenal without asking for permission.
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Young M. Rabb, an enslaver in Conecuh County, writes to Governor Watts to concerns regarding impressed slave labor in the county. He argues that Conecuh has already sent many enslaved laborers to service. He also complains that enslavers are not being paid for impressed labor.
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Soldier from 43rd Alabama regiment requesting temporary discharge from military service due to his role as a constable in Tuscaloosa County.
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In the letter, Stollenwerck asks to be transferred from the 2nd class militia to the 1st class militia. He argues that because he has a contract with the Bibb County Iron Works and because he is one of few white men in the area he should be granted the transfer.
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In this letter, Mrs. Mathews expresses to the governor that she wants her overseers to moved to First Class and returned to plantation in Wilcox County to help manage enslaved population.
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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.
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In this letter, Mr. Marbury asks Gov. T. H. Watts to be released from his duties as an impressment agent due to poor health and old age.
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Phillips addresses his inability to serve due to his rheumatism
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In the letter, F.S. Blount tells of his attempt to pass the Governor's letter to General Polk and Governor Clarke, their willingness to give aid, and of attempts to assess Sherman's Campaign in Mississippi. He speaks of General Maury's plan to resist impressing enslaved labor as they were needed for production of food provisions.
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Lt. Col. Sheliha of the Engineer Department requests immediate increase of enslaved laborers for defense works of Mobile; if the governors doesn't send them, Sheliha predicts "another calamity."
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The docket for the case of Godfrey, an enslaved boy, whose execution was stayed for only several months by Andrew B. Moore. Godfrey was convicted of murdering a white boy but citizens of Mobile petitioned to have him pardoned because of his young age.
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A letter from Judge Alexander McKinstry to Governor A.B. Moore requesting that the execution of an enslaved boy, Godfrey, be stayed for thirty days.
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Petition for the pardon of Godfrey, an enslaved boy who was convicted of murdering another child and sentenced to death. Moore suspended the pardon but Godfrey was hung on July 30, 1858 (see attached newspaper clipping from the Independent American [Troy, Ala.], August 4, 1858; see also case summary from Alabama Reports, vol. 31, accessed via Harvard's Case Law Access Project).
