MG0115_F003_In03_It01 Lancaster April 10 1861 The bearer Samuel L. Hartman desires employment . He is a young man of good acquirements and habits—I have no doubt that he would faithfully discharge any duties allotted to him—He is a good [clk], and generally an active young man—and I should be

MG0115_F003_In03_It02 Lancaster April 24, 1861 Hon. Wm. B. Thomas Collector— Sir The bearer J. J. Cochran [Esq] our Post Master visits you to try to get some appointments under you for this county—He especially desires the employment of Judge Hibsman and H. A. Zook— They are both excellent man, and

horses that were running at large. They then seized my bacon (about 4,000 lbs.), molasses and other contents of the store & took about $1,000 worth of corn in the mills, and a like quantity of other grain On Friday, they burned the furnace, saw:mill, two forges and rolling mill. They slept in the office

. Others do not think so, and I hope it is not true— Vicksburg news would be glorious if our anxiety about Meade did not expel it— Thousands are [Sojourneying] to the field of battle [Yours] Thaddeus Stevens Col. O. J. Dickey [on reverse, in another hand] Harrisburg P[a] July 7 1863 Stevens Thad Recd. A