C. Wait to Unknown
1861-05-30
- Date of Creation
- May 30, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Correspondence
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1859-1862
- Box / Folder
- MG5-114
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-019-0061
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208315
- Places
- Somerset, Kentucky
- Dates
- 1861-05-30
Citation
C. Wait to Unknown, 1861-05-30, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-019-0061 (November 12, 2026).
Somerset
My Dear Sir
will you See the Goviner Mcgoffin & committee for arming the State & See if I can git a contract to furnish a Quantity of Salt-peter a Quantity of Powder I have plans of fine Locality for a Powder Mill Plenty of water Power and Plenty of caves to work 300 hands and could in a Short Time be mooving the business a hed Some one must have this contract & these is no one that I Know have the Same facilitis I have — a [Trusty] Experianced man in the Mill is all I Should be Lacking to go right on with the Business I am writing to old friend Swagart on the Same Subject See what you can do for Me
[Vary] Truly C, Wait