MEXICAN MAJOR CAPTAIN 1st PA INFANTRY CIVIL WAR POST OFFICE SCOTT LETTER SIGNED!

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Here’s a Civil War Date US Post Office Document Signed by
M
AJOR
ROBERT K. SCOTT
(1824 – 1910)
MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR MAJOR
and CAPTAIN
OF “
H
”
CO. 1st
REGIMENT, PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS
,
STATIONED AT FORT MIFFLIN IN PHILADELPHIA ALONG THE DELAWARE RIVER,
CIVIL WAR SPECIAL AGENT and ACTING CHIEF CLERK OF THE UNITED STATES POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT AT WASHINGTON,
UNITED STATES POST OFFICE CHIEF CLERK OF THE OFFICE OF INSPECTION and MAIL DEPREDATIONS – THE LAW ENFORCEMENT, INVESTIGATIVE and INSPECTION BRANCH OF THE POST OFFICE DEPT,
IN CHARGE OF PROTECTING THE MAIL FROM VIOLATIONS OF FEDERAL CRIMES
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RE-ESTABLISHED FEDERAL POSTAL SERVICES IN UNION OCCUPIED NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
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HERE’s A DOCUMENT SIGNED BY SCOTT ON “
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, INSPECTION OFFICE
” LETTERHEAD,
1
p., DATED JULY 30
th
1862
,
TO
STEUBEN JENKINS
(1819-1890)
DEMOCRATIC PARTY MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM LACKAWANNA and LUZERNE COUNTIES 1856-1857 and 1882-1883,
CLERK and ATTORNEY, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS’ OFFICE, LUZERNE COUNTY,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, WYOMING, PA.,
MANAGER, FOREIGN MAIL BUREAU, UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE,
TRUSTEE, STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE AT DANVILLE
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DIRECTOR OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PITTSTON.
THIS IS A HARSH LETTER FROM SCOTT CONCERNING A COMPLAINT MADE TO THE US POST OFFICE DEPT THAT JENKINS FAILED TO SUPPLY THE POST OFFICE AT KETCHUM, PA, ON ROUTE No. 2361, WYOMING, [PA] TO VERNON WITH THE MAIL, AND THAT HIS FAILURE SUBJECTS HIM TO A FINE – HIS EXPLANATION REQUESTED
!
THIS LETTER CAME OUT OF A SMALL ARCHIVE OF R. K. SCOTT LETTERS (THIS IS THE LAST ONE). OTHER LETTERS IN THE GROUP SHOWED THAT JENKINS WAS A ROGUE POSTAL ROUTE CONTRACTOR – HAVING AN ISSUE WITH THIS SAME POST OFFICE A NUMBER OF TIMES.
The document measures 8” x 10” and is in VF condition.
Robert K Scott
Birth: 1824
Death:
1910 (
November
10, 1910
aged 86 years, 1 day
Burial:
Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery
,
Burgettstown, Washington County, Pennsylvania
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