1862 August 3 Camp near Harrisons Landing Va

                Headquarters Conchs Division
               Camp near Harrisons Landing, Va
                             August 3rd 1862

Col. Thos. Hillhouse
            Adjut General
                    State of New York, Sir
                                             I have the honor
to acknowledge the receipt at these Head-
quarters of the Commissions of Col. Wm H
Browne, and Lt .Col. James Walsh. 36th New
York. Vol. Those officers have been
placed on duty accordingly.
I am Sir
very respectfully
your obd. servt
Francis A Walker. Capt
Assist. Adj. Gen.

Francis Amasa Walker, 1840-1897, after the war was Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, a professor of political economy at Yale, and president of both the American Statistical Association and the American Economic Association.

Thomas Hillhouse, 1817-1897, New York State Senator, and Adj. Genl. New York State Militia, after the war New York State Comptroller and Assistant Treasurer of the U.S.

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