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This is confusing... Is Capt Beckwith sending the telegram or receiving it?June 8th, 1861 Chambersburg, PATelegramCapt.. E. G. BeckwithMakes Inquiry as to his authority to purchase horses.Recv\'d June 8, 1861
Side 2:June 8, 1861 From ChambersburgTo Commissary Genl USA\"Have I as commissary authority to purchase horses for herding and driving cattle?E. G. BeckwithCapt. 3rd ArtilleryA A C S
Original Civil War document written by Civil War Capt. Edward G Beckwith
Doc Size - 5 1/2\" x 8 1/4\". Written on both sides in old script inkunruled lightly blue paper tht has two preprinted words, \"From\" and \"To\"\"Edward Griffin Beckwith (June 25, 1818 – June 22, 1881) was a United States Army officer having graduated from West Point in 1842.Capt. Beckwithserved in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
In the 1850\'s he conducted one of the Pacific Railroad Surveys with John Williams Gunnison and became known as the \"Explorer of the Central Rockies\".... Beckwith was promoted captain May 12, 1855, and served during the American Civil War in the commissary department from 1861 to 1865, with the exception of a few weeks in 1863, when he acted as provost-marshal-general of the department of the Gulf, and again when placed for a short time (August 1863 – January 1864) in command of the defenses of New Orleans. On February 8, 1864, he was promoted major, and on March 13, 1865, was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general of volunteers. He continued in the service of the commissary department until he was mustered out on May 31, 1866. \"
