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State of Mississippi Sunflower County To the Commander of the Post at Vicksburg Mi We the undersigned Petitioners residents of County, & state aforesaid would respectfully represent to you that we are well acquainted with Mr Saml Rose of this county & believe him to be a man of great integrity Therefore we take pleasure in presenting him to you as a man well calculated to fill the office of Provost Marshall in this County. We would respectfully request that he be appointed to that office &c. [left column] Wm. M.D. Martin John D Chickering A.M. Martin Wm D. Clement F.B. Truley M.A. Morgan H H Farnsworth C.T. Purnell C W Welden J.R. Bertram Ben G. Humphreys Thomas Barnes Ishan Sanders Thomas [[?]] J F Holden T.C. Whitmore C. Gillerpin Robert Gillerpin Thomas Duncan John Thomson T.P. Youngblood J.M. Jennings [right column] N M Leed A. Heathman Augustus Catehings P W Browning H. Johnson Wm R Smith D B Smith William Mathews T P Muirhead Alexd. Mathews DRG Martin C W Sanders M.A. [[Merlin?]] John H Martin Wm R Wrenn W, T. Lipson A.G. Wrenn A McArthur Eli Waites W. Q. Poindexter T.J. Gibson E S Butler L T Barket
Transcription Notes:
Please review names: many of them are sloppy or writing is faint
F.B Truley looks more like F.R. Frisley
Thomas [[?]] looks like Thomas Brimns
T.P. Muirhead looks like T.P. Zuirhead or Quirhead
M.A. [[Merlin]] is M.A. Martin