Robert Vaughan to George D. Prentice
1862-09-09
- Date of Creation
- September 9, 1862
- Place of Creation
- Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Correspondence
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Appointments by the Governor, Military Appointments, 1862-1863
- Box / Folder
- R2-174
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-028-0041
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32211224
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- Dates
- 1862-09-09
Citation
Robert Vaughan to George D. Prentice, 1862-09-09, Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Appointments by the Governor, Military Appointments, 1862-1863, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-028-0041 (February 12, 2026).
Bowling green Ky
Friend Prentice
I wrote you some weeks ago soliciting your aid, in securing me a promoted appointment I also gave you in the same letter the circumstances connected with my recommendation for the Majority in our Regt & the commissioning of Capt Claggett, by the Military Board — after I had been acting as Maj for one month — Believing that my claims were superior to Capt C's as a military man I have deeply felt his appointment over me under the circumstances — & knowing your intimacy, & influence with Gov Robinson & Agt Genl Finnell I shall depend upon your active influence with these Gentlemen in securing me a Field appointment — the long & severe marches to which we have been subjected is terribly severe upon me — & I am at present unwell. but never flinch from duty — We are now here & marched from Nashville ^in^ three days — If friend Prentice will use his exertions & secure my promotion, I think he knows me well enough to know that I will endeavor to ^do^ honor to any position — let me hear from you inhaste —
Your friend
Robt Vaughan
Capt. Co. I, 17. Ky
Capt Vaughn &
G. D. Printice