Isaac Shelby Letter, MSS.1662

Abstract: A letter of January 10, 1865 by Isaac Shelby, Confederate commissary officer, about the state of commissary supplies in the Military Department of the Gulf, February-June 1862.Scope and Content Note: This collection consists of one letter from Shelby to an unidentified colonel, apparently on the latter's request for information about Shelby's commissary activities in the Military Department of the Gulf from late February to late May or early June 1862.Biographical/Historical Note: Confederate Army commissary officer writing from Richmond, January 10, 1865, about his activities at Mobile, Alabama, February-June 186