Thursday, July 13, 2023

Governor Albert G. Brown* to Congressman Jefferson Davis, January 11, 1846

Executive Chamber Jackson Mi 11 Jany 1846
Sir

I send you under advice from the Secretary of War a lot of blank commissions to be used in supplying such vacancies as may be created among the officers under your command by death, resignation or otherwise, You will please advise me when you have occasion to use any of the blanks so that the Register here may be correctly kept

I sent you some months since a similar package to this by mail & as I have not since heard from it fear it has been lost Lieut Bradford of the State Fencibles is charged with the delivery of this package.

Very Respfl

Your Obt sevt
A. G. Brown
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* Brown, Albert Gallatin (1813-1880), a political leader, was born in Chester district, S. C., May 31, 1813, removed to Mississippi, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1834. He was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from March 14, 1839, to March 3, 1841, and from March 4, 1847, to March 3, 1853; Governor of Mississippi 1844-1848; U. S. Senator from Mississippi from March 4, 1853 to January 12, 1861; a captain in the 17th Mississippi Volunteers; a senator in the first and second Confederate Congresses. He died at his home near Terry, Miss., June 12, 1880.

SOURCES: Dunbar Rowland, Editor, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers and Speeches, Volume 1, p. 25-6

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