Requests to be allowed to join Hill ?s command. Transcription: Hd Qrs 1st Mo Inftry September 13 / 64 Col. Hill Sir I have the honor to request that I be allowed to join your command. Owing to the reduced number of my Company, there being present 1 Captain, 1 1st Li[e]ut 1 2nd Lieut, 3 non commissioned Officers and 9 privates Sick [and] for duty. My Company is composed of two companies consolidated. I think under the existing circumstances of the case that my services can be of more benefit to the service in your command than in my present position. Yours Respectfully Byrne[Andrew J
Requests to be allowed to join Hill ?s command. Transcription: Hd Qrs 1st Mo Inftry September 13 / 64 Col. Hill Sir I have the honor to request that I be allowed to join your command. Owing to the reduced number of my Company, there being present 1 Captain, 1 1st Li[e]ut 1 2nd Lieut, 3 non commissioned Officers and 9 privates Sick [and] for duty. My Company is composed of two companies consolidated. I think under the existing circumstances of the case that my services can be of more benefit to the service in your command than in my present position. Yours Respectfully Byrne[Andrew J. Byrne] Capt. Co. ?ǣD ? 1st Mo Inftry Title: Letter signed Byrne, Headquarters 1st Missouri Infantry (Confederate), to Colonel Hill, September 13, 1864 . 13 September 1864. Byrne, A. J.
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