Annie Samuels asked for a regiment of women

The National Archives keeps this as one item, National Archives Identifier 3854724. The catalog's production date for it is December 2, 1864. The title is the plot the description is willing to state: a letter from Annie Samuels to the Confederate Secretary of War J. A. Sedden, asking to form a regiment of women.

The spelling "J. A. Sedden" is the spelling on the record title. This story does not swap in another spelling.

The item sits in the series Letters Received by the Confederate Secretary of War. The catalog attributes that series to the War Department's War Records Office, in the Adjutant General's Office, an office it dates from 1874 to July 1, 1899. The parent group is Record Group 109, the War Department Collection of Confederate Records. The letter is older than the office that later arranged the series. What the catalog says is where the paper is filed now, not that the War Records Office received it in 1864.

Access is unrestricted. Use is unrestricted. The catalog description does not record what the secretary wrote back.

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