[PW] Army Letter dated 1874

[Sue Kamm]

The first place I tried was the WORLD ALMANAC, in search of the members of
the President's (Rutherford B. Hayes) cabinet - particularly the secretary
of the treasury - was named Davis.  Nada.  

I then looked in Wikipedia to find a listing for the Confederate States of
America cabinet.  The attorney general during the last year of the
confederacy was Davis, but I'm not sure if he would have had anything to do
with offering funds to former soldiers.  

Do you have any notion of what state the writer was in?  Could "Mr. Davis"
have been a state official of some kind?  

The Special Libraries Association's Military Librarians Divison has a list
of military libraries on the web.  Unfortunately, the computer I'm using
doesn't do web pages :( but if you go to http://www.sla.org, click on "SLA
Community" go to Divisions and scroll downt o Military Librarians there are
some libraries that may be able to help you. 

Your friendly neighborhood CyberGoddess and ALA Councilor at Large, 
Sue Kamm
Email: suekamm[at]mindspring.com
Inglewood/Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Dodgers Truest of the Blue, 2000
Visit my blog:  http://suekamm.blogspot.com
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> [Original Message]
> From: <sangpark at xsmail.com>
> To: <list at project-wombat.org>
> Date: 8/22/2007 1:05:33 PM
> Subject: [PW] Army Letter dated 1874
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure I have enough information for anyone to be able to help.
> This is what the patron asked:
>
> In an Army letter dated 1874 is a phrase "...they sit and wait for Uncle
> Davis' Money." Is there any way you can track down this saying and find
> out what it is referring to?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Sang
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