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1863-03-31: Shorter, John Gill, to Vance, Zebulon Baird, Letter

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1863-03-31: Shorter, John Gill, to Vance, Zebulon Baird, Letter

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Title	1863-03-31: Shorter, John Gill, to Vance, Zebulon Baird, Letter
Creator	Shorter, John Gill, 1818-1872
LC Subject Headings	United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Shorter, John Gill, 1818-1872 Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894
EOA Categories	History -- 1838-1874: Sectionalism, the Civil War and Reconstruction Peoples -- Military Life Government & Politics -- Military
Description	This collection consists of a March 1863 letter from John Gill Shorter, Confederate Governor of Alabama, to Zebulon Baird Vance, Confederate Governor of North Carolina, during the Civil War. In the letter, Shorter requests that Vance authorize the University of Alabama to contract with a North Carolina factory to supply cloth for cadet uniforms at that school.
Digital Publisher	Auburn University Libraries
Date	1863-03-31
Original Format	1 letter, 1 page, 25 x 20 cm
Type	Text
Format	PDF
Original Item ID	RG 1124, Box 1, Folder 49
Rights	This image is the property of the Auburn University Libraries and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this and other images in this collection, please contact the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Department at archives@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1732.
Language	eng
File Name	18630331 Shorter to Vance letter.pdf
Collection	John and Faye Vick Collection
Repository	Auburn University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
Submitted by	McRae, David R.; Coates, Midge
Transcript	Executive Department Montgomery, Ala., March 31st 1863 His Excellency Z. B. Vance Governor of North Carolina Raleigh Sir The Quartermaster of the University of Alabama has just returned from a trip through the seaboard States for the purpose of purchasing stores for the Corps of Cadets, without success in procuring clothes for uniforms. Understanding through him that the Factories in your State are under contracts with or control of the State authorities, I respectfully request, that, if consistent with previous arrangements or the necessities of your own supply, you would grant permission for Col L. C. Garland, Superintendent of the Alabama University Corps of Cadets, to contract with the "Mountain Leland Factory" to manufacture twelve hundred (1200) yards Gray Cassimere for Cadet uniforms. I know of no Factory, nearer than your own State, where such goods are manufactured, and your compliance will be esteemed as a favor to the State of Alabama, to be reciprocated when opportunity may offer by Your Obt Servt Jno. Gill Shorter, Govr of Alabama