Scope and Contents: Letter from Jules C. Denis, Major and Provost Marshal, to General John H. Winder, Commander of Henrico County, informing him that he is sending him three men: H.H. Cowdry and H. Bailey, both "charged with disloyalty" to the Confederate States of America, and J.P. McGregor, who "ran the blockade & arrived in this city ... for the solitary motive of evading federal conscription"; includes brief biography of McGregor.
Ms. document.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Signed by Denis, but probably written by a secretary.
Origin: Written on official letterhead: "Department of the Gulf, Provost Marshal General's Office, Mobile, Sept 22d 1863."
Former shelf-mark: MS 72 12 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).