Saturday, November 15, 2014

Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Capt. Grenville M. Dodge, May 25, 1861

Executive Chamber,
Des Moines, Iowa, May 25, 1861.
Capt. G. M. Dodge:

Dear Sir — I hereby confide to you a communication to Major-Gen. Harney, at St. Louis, desiring from him, or, through him, from the Secretary of War, 3,000 stand of arms from the command at Fort Kearney, Neb. Should it be deemed proper by you, when at St. Louis, upon conference with Gen. Harney, to go to Washington City in order the more readily to obtain these arms, I desire you to go there at once. When the order is obtained you will report to me immediately for further instructions.

Respectfully,
SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD,
Governor of Iowa.

SOURCE: Henry Warren Lathrop, The Life and Times of Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor, p. 281

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