Letter from T. A. Philips to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; July 31, 1864
Title
Letter from T. A. Philips to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; July 31, 1864
Subject
Clark, Charles, 1811-1877; Confederate States of America. Army.; Draft.; Mississippi. Governor
Description
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from the Mississippi state salt works by T. A. Philips, the state salt agent, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark concerning the effort to have his workers exempted from the draft.
Creator
Philips, T. A.
Publisher
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. (electronic version); Mississippi Digital Library. (electronic version)
Date
1864-07-31
Contributor
Funding for this project provided by The Dale Center for Study of War and Society-USM, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the Mississippi Digital Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the Watson-Brown Foundation
Rights
NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Language
English
Identifier
mdah_768-949-09-37
Coverage
1864
Text
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Miss State salt works
July 31, 1864,
Gov Charles Clark
Governor
Capt Dunning will hand you my report I hope it will be satisfactory.
We have the logs within 200 yards of the Tank & hope to get them through & try the water in them by Thursday, The cased well I also expect to complete in two or three days. The Conscript officers here required our salt contractors to report in Mobile to Major stone, & that our employees shall be enrolled, & be regularly detailed—I went to see Major stone & he says, if I will get the Commandant of Conscript of Miss: to approve all of the appointments made by me & approved by Your Excellency, that the Conscript officers in this state will respect them, & ordered the Enrolling officers here to give me ample time to have our papers arranged—In the mean time I wrote Gov Watts, that whatever arrangements he was making to protect his Contractors & Employees to make the same for us; I hear he referred the matter to Col Lockhart endorsing my letter, requesting that we should be protected.
I have lost almost three weeks & spent several hundred Dollars in going to Mobile three times & St Stephens as often in trying to get our papers arranged,—[strikethrough] it is [strikethrough]
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The Conscript officers here say your proclamation is of no service to us in this state & that I have no right to give an appointment to a citizen of this state, they took off two of our men (the Barrel Makers) one of them turned out to be a deserter, the other supposed to be a citizen of this state; Major Stone ordered him back here if found to be a citizen of Miss: but if a citizen of Ala: to be sent to him.
Capt Dunning brings up all of the appointments & contracts for both Contractors & Employees, every one is a Citizen of Miss:
I have sent you also two appointments for approval if you think advisable, Haley & Haggard, Log & Nellborey?—Genl Nest applied to Genl Pillow for a detail for them, through the office in Columbus, they replied to him they were detailed to him & their details could be obtained by applying to that office, I have written there, also Genl Nest to get the details, but have never recieved them, I have just heard from our distributing Depot Fourteen counties have applied for salt & paid in 8,216 Dollars, which amount Capt Dunning brings up to deposit in the Treasury,
Capt Dunning will also hand you an Estimate for funds which I require to pay up my entire indebtedness—Nineteen Thousand Dollars, that amount you will notice includes Barrels & [cane?]
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which I have yet to recieve. If it can be so arranged that I can get it without coming up, I would much prefer it, as I do not wish to lieve here until I try the water & several other important and interesting experiments, I do wish so much I had the other two furnaces up & the water out here turning out 160 Bushels pr day instead of 80, it would seem as if we were doing something, but I tell you it takes time & a heap of work to make a showing these times & what is equally as bad, a heap of money.
The Pump is doing well, the Furnaces doing well, our people healthy for the number & if I can only make a good job of the Logs I will be very thankful.
I am very truly your Obdt sevt
T. A. Philips.
Genl. Salt, agt. [S.W.?]
Governor.
I had the above written when Col Lockhart's letter with your endorsement was handed me, I will get the report made out in the morning & send you along with this by Capt Dunning.
Very truly
T. A. Philips
Governor
I have used Twelve hundred & Six Dollars & 28 cents out of the amount spoken of above directing Capt Dunning to replace it out of
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the funds expected to recieve from you,
Respecfully yrs
T. A. Philips,
Genl Salt agt [S.W.?]
T. A. Phillips
[strikethrough]Aug[strikethrough]July 31, 64
Miss State salt works
July 31, 1864,
Gov Charles Clark
Governor
Capt Dunning will hand you my report I hope it will be satisfactory.
We have the logs within 200 yards of the Tank & hope to get them through & try the water in them by Thursday, The cased well I also expect to complete in two or three days. The Conscript officers here required our salt contractors to report in Mobile to Major stone, & that our employees shall be enrolled, & be regularly detailed—I went to see Major stone & he says, if I will get the Commandant of Conscript of Miss: to approve all of the appointments made by me & approved by Your Excellency, that the Conscript officers in this state will respect them, & ordered the Enrolling officers here to give me ample time to have our papers arranged—In the mean time I wrote Gov Watts, that whatever arrangements he was making to protect his Contractors & Employees to make the same for us; I hear he referred the matter to Col Lockhart endorsing my letter, requesting that we should be protected.
I have lost almost three weeks & spent several hundred Dollars in going to Mobile three times & St Stephens as often in trying to get our papers arranged,—[strikethrough] it is [strikethrough]
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The Conscript officers here say your proclamation is of no service to us in this state & that I have no right to give an appointment to a citizen of this state, they took off two of our men (the Barrel Makers) one of them turned out to be a deserter, the other supposed to be a citizen of this state; Major Stone ordered him back here if found to be a citizen of Miss: but if a citizen of Ala: to be sent to him.
Capt Dunning brings up all of the appointments & contracts for both Contractors & Employees, every one is a Citizen of Miss:
I have sent you also two appointments for approval if you think advisable, Haley & Haggard, Log & Nellborey?—Genl Nest applied to Genl Pillow for a detail for them, through the office in Columbus, they replied to him they were detailed to him & their details could be obtained by applying to that office, I have written there, also Genl Nest to get the details, but have never recieved them, I have just heard from our distributing Depot Fourteen counties have applied for salt & paid in 8,216 Dollars, which amount Capt Dunning brings up to deposit in the Treasury,
Capt Dunning will also hand you an Estimate for funds which I require to pay up my entire indebtedness—Nineteen Thousand Dollars, that amount you will notice includes Barrels & [cane?]
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which I have yet to recieve. If it can be so arranged that I can get it without coming up, I would much prefer it, as I do not wish to lieve here until I try the water & several other important and interesting experiments, I do wish so much I had the other two furnaces up & the water out here turning out 160 Bushels pr day instead of 80, it would seem as if we were doing something, but I tell you it takes time & a heap of work to make a showing these times & what is equally as bad, a heap of money.
The Pump is doing well, the Furnaces doing well, our people healthy for the number & if I can only make a good job of the Logs I will be very thankful.
I am very truly your Obdt sevt
T. A. Philips.
Genl. Salt, agt. [S.W.?]
Governor.
I had the above written when Col Lockhart's letter with your endorsement was handed me, I will get the report made out in the morning & send you along with this by Capt Dunning.
Very truly
T. A. Philips
Governor
I have used Twelve hundred & Six Dollars & 28 cents out of the amount spoken of above directing Capt Dunning to replace it out of
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the funds expected to recieve from you,
Respecfully yrs
T. A. Philips,
Genl Salt agt [S.W.?]
T. A. Phillips
[strikethrough]Aug[strikethrough]July 31, 64