Correspondence

John Boyle to Hannah Gill

1863-11

Date of Creation
November 1863
Place of Creation
Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Correspondence
Repository
Kentucky Department of Military Affairs
Collection
Assistant Adjutant General Letter Book - No. 1 ; 5 Sept 1863 - 2 Feb 1864
Box / Folder
341
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0002-153-0078
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32212811

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Dates
1863-11-25
1863-11-20
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Citation

John Boyle to Hannah Gill, 1863-11, Assistant Adjutant General Letter Book - No. 1 ; 5 Sept 1863 - 2 Feb 1864, Kentucky Department of Military Affairs. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0002-153-0078 (January 20, 2026).

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Nov. [23rd] [...]3
Mrs Hannah Gill
Louisville- Ky
Madam,

Your favor of the 20th [...] referred by his Excellency- the Governor- to this Department with instructions.

It is an invariable rule to have the recommendation of a Colonel- before commissions issue to fill vacancies in his Regiment — filed in this office. You can doubtless procure such for your son- whom we doubt not, is worthy of promotion. Did we vary from this inflexible custom- it would be in his case.

If you make application to some colonel- you wil doubtless receive a letter recommending your son to some position in his regiment — which you can forward to this office, and he shall be commissioned at once

Respectfully
Your obt Serv't
John Boyle
Adjt. Genl of Ky.