Letter from Joseph H. Knox to L. S. Joynes, 1864 September 14

              Loring Divison Field Infirmary
 
Lovejoy G[eorgi]a, Sept[ember] 14 1964 


Sir:

 
Hospital Steward Hall has just shown me a letter 

from you in reply to one he had written in relation to 

attending the Medical College at Richmond this winter 

wherein he had mentioned my name.  I am under 

many obligations to you for the kind manner in which 

you proffer your assistance & influence with the 

Surgeon General on our behalf provided we
 
make our "proper applications";__ about the 16th 

of July 1864 I made formal application to the Surgeon 

General for the appointment of Hospital Stweard, so 

that I might-thereby be transfered to duty at Rich-

mond with a view of attending College to which I 

have never heard.  I have awaited anxiously for some reply
 
and now conclude that it is useless to wait longer, 

as they must have been lost or misplaced.  Therefore 

I the more readily take advantage of your kind
 
offer.  You will find herein enclosed a copy of the 

aplication I sent the Surg[eo]n General. Though I have 

never recieved any appointment from the Sec[re]t[ar]y of War, 

yet I have been doing the duty of of Hospital Stweard, since 

the 11th Oct[ober]. 1862 at which time I was enrolled 

as such my Maj[or] M.F. Berry, Commanding 
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for Miss[issippi].  I have attended one course of Lectures
 
at the University of Nashville in the winter of 1860 - [18]'61,

and am excedingly anxious to finish my studies,

as it is now all I will have to depend upon in after

life.  Hoping by your influence as I may get to attend your 

respectable College this winter, I am most respectfully etc.


Joseph H. Knox


[Addressed:]
L.S. Joynes, M.D.
Dean Medical Faculty
Richmond, Va