Jonathan Worth to Samuel H. Walkup,* May 28, 1861

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[P. S.]—We have 5 incipient companies of volunteers, some nearly full and all filling up rapidly. We have been slow to move, but will fight the stronger.

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* Samuel H. Walkup, of Union county, was State Senator from 1858 to 1862. He was a lawyer by profession and a Whig in politics. He was a General of militia.

SOURCE: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Editor, The Correspondence of Jonathan Worth, Volume 1, p. 152