Three page letter begins, "This is our eighth day in the boonies, and tomorrow we might go back to Lai Khe." He writes of having been a squad leader for several days now ("8 men including myself") because of the illness of another sergeant.
Militia commission of Halbert S. Rogers of Hawkins County, Tenn., as Captain, Company L, Eighth Regiment of Tennessee Cavalry. The commission is signed by Governor Andrew Johnson, March 1, 1865, and also carries the signature of Edward H. East,...