Coxs Mills Gilmer Co. West Va
March the 21st 1865
Col Geo. W. Brown
Dear Sir
I wish to
settle up my business & want to know what
I shall do with the guns & ammunition
&c. I wish to resign & as it does not
suit me to attend to the company and
the peopel [sic] any longer. It has been a
loosing [sic] business with me ever since I
have had charge of the company I have
paid for all the hauling that has been don
and have not received not one cent
and if it can be so I should like to
have my the money refunded to me
(unreadable) immediately Yours with (unreadable) respect
John H. Brown Capt
Comd Troy Home(unreadable)
AB you will find enclosed an account I request you to see if the money cannot be paid to me
John H. Bush Capt
Comd Company
Transcription by Rob Hawkins, undergraduate student enrolled in Dr. Billy Joe Peyton's Fall 2010 "Introduction to Public History" at West Virginia State University