Phila[delphia, Pa.] 29 Aug[ust] 1863[.]

FREDK. DOUGLAS ESQ

Hon. ADJT. GENL. THOMAS¹Lorenzo Thomas. U.S.A

VICKSBURGH MISS.

ESTEEMED FRIEND

I enclose Your a/c made up to the 1st of August. balance due you $30.97
which is enclosed. The other charges you will present in New a/c, At
Washington I was told the Secy. of War² Edwin M. Stanton. expected me to pay for services &

You will therefore present Your accounts as usual to me for payment. Your Salary from Aug. 1st will be One Hundred dollars per month and Expenses of Subsistence. I presume the War Department has furnished you with transportation. I regret you did not see me before leaving. It would have been useful to both of us. But I am glad You are going to Genl. Thomas and hope to hear from you frequently. I leave Sunday Evg. if possible—My address will be. Major George L. Stearns A.A.L. U.S.S. Recty. Comr U.S. Col Troops Ha Gas. Dept of the Cumberland Tenn.³First designated the Army of the Ohio, the Union army’s Department of the Cumberland occupied and operated in areas of the Ohio River Valley, as well as in much of Kentucky and Tennessee. Formed in 1861 under the command of Brigadier General Robert Anderson, the Army of the Cumberland, as it became officially known in 1861, became the North’s second most powerful army. By 1863, the Army of the Cumberland, then under the command of Major General Ulysses Grant, had participated in a number of major engagements in Tennessee. Larry J. Daniel, (Baton Rouge, La., 2004), 1, 7.

Truly Your friend

GEORGE L. STEARNS

ALS: General Correspondence File, reel 1, frames 843-44, FD Papers, DLC.