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Document Spotlight-Bad News for Captain Bliss

Published by on October 3, 2011 at 4:44 pm

Parkehyde, one of our volunteer transcribers recently finished a document that highlights a frequent situation in the early War Department. A Captain Bliss had evidently asked for an accounting of money due him. After a check of the relevant paperwork, however, the Commissioner of Army Accounts determined that Captain Bliss was not owed any funds. Furthermore, the letter advises Bliss that it could be a waste of his time to pursue the matter further, although, even in the eighteenth century, he was free to speak with counsel. It is at the same time a personal story, a bureaucratic story, and a military one.

Read the entire letter at http://wardepartmentpapers.org/scripto/mediawiki/index.php/.NDMyNA.MjM0NDg.

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