(From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Letter Book of Governor Brown.)
Com 1st Miss Rifles,
Sir
I have the honor to enclose a copy of a letter written by me
to the Secretary of War requesting that officers & men in your Regiment be
allowed to retain their arms on retiring from the service or that said arms be
issued to Mississippi as a part of her quota from the Genl Government. The
Secr. has not yet replied to the letter, but it is not doubted by me that he
will at least yield to the last request. Expecting to be absent from home for
some weeks I have instructed the Sec of State to forward Gov Marcy's answer to
you when it is received. Should either of my requests be complied with, you
will allow the men under your command to retain their arms when you disband
them. If they are issued to the State, I cannot render a more acceptable
service to the people for whom your ever glorious Reg't has won such
imperishable honor than to say in their name "there shall be no divorce
between the gallant soldier & his Gun."
SOURCE: Dunbar Rowland, Editor, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers and Speeches, Volume 1, p. 72
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