Yesterday we received a letter from Col. Bartow, written
just before the battle (in which he fell, his letter being received after the
announcement of his death), urging the appointment of his gallant young friend
Lamar to a lieutenancy. I noted these facts on the back of his letter, with the
Secretary's approbation, and also that the request had been granted, and placed
the letter, perhaps the last he ever wrote, in the archives for preservation.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 66
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