1861 August 25 Eufaula, Alabama

[RD]
Dear Dent
Your favor of the 22nd Inst
by Capt Baker enclosing thirty $30 Dollars
for J. A. Sylvester Selma Ala for
a Coat purchased of him is at
hand – I notice what you say about
Bullock and regret to be compelled to
state that his manner of proceedure in
this matter furnishes me abundant
cause to complain – This however would
not be the case if I was urging him
to pay the amount – or did I ever as much
as expect him to pay all of it next January
(which I am well aware will not be done) – but
when I am simply asking him to give his notes
for,, accts,, that have been standing from one
to two years at the same time being in
possession of the very these a/cs,, [accounts] and they receipted
it certainly is a source of great annoyance
to me – I would not care any thing about
it if the Amount was small – but twelve
or fourteen Hundred dollars being the Amt,,

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without Note and the a/cs Receipted and
in his possession is pretty severe.
I cannot see for my life why he
will not give his note for it was
his own proposition to fix it the way
I have – If you cannot get him to
sign the notes send me the memoran-
dum back and I will make it convenient
to suit [or “sue” (word is smeared)] him if he ever comes home.
I dislike very much for a man to
treat me as he has done in this
case. I notice in the Columbus Sun
some Correspondent writing from
Pensacoli says one Mr Roburson from
the 10th Mississippi Reg an editor when
at home is to be shot next Friday
for sleeping at his post – this
I am powerfully ^ ‘sorry’ to hear of – also
another one from his Youthfulness and
inexperience will be punished sixty days
and then ^ ‘be’ Drummed out of Camp
Pretty bad treatment for just taking
a short nap of sleep –
Yours truly
W. H. Locke


William H. Locke Confederate soldier in John Hardy's "Eufala Minute Men" and Captain George A. Robert's Co. C., Fourth Battalion, Alabama Cavalry; before and after the war a dry goods merchant in Eufaula, Alabama.

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