Letter from James Buchanan to William Drinkard

Letter from James Buchanan to William Drinkard
Number of Pages: 
3
Date: 
September 7, 1860

President James Buchanan writes to William R. Drinkard, Secretary of War John B. Floyd's chief clerk, in an attempt to solve a dispute over paying US Army Captain Montgomery Meigs. Buchanan asks Drinkard to send "the Paper addressed by Capt Meigs in reply to the Attorney Generals [Jeremiah S. Black] opinions together with all papers relating to the accounts which he refuses to pay." Transcript included.

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Location: 
I-Friends-2006-1
Origin: 
Gift of Friends of the Library