July 17, 1862 [Thursday]. Washington, D. C.
Isaac M. Fisher, Dear Sir:
Yours of the 14th came duly to hand, and I conferred immediately with Col. Wm. Hemphill Jones, who was then in correspondence with Maj. I. C. Woodruff, and requested him to make all inquiry for your son Wm. J. Fisher. W. Jones felt great interest for you and your son, and he told me this morning he had written to Capt. Rodney Layton about him. He is down there [Harrison’s Landing] with Genl. McClellan’s Army. I will be constantly on the lookout for you, and give you the first information I can obtain. We here have had a meeting and appointed a committee to look up all the sick and wounded. And we attend to all we can for all we can find. I have been down to Alexandria and through the hospital looking and left our address. The committee men are:
Wm. Hemphill Jones, Benjamin Janvier, Isaac J. Jenkins, James H. Bell, William Cannon, Jr., and Garrett Luff.
I enclose you Maj. Woodruff’s note to Col. Jones.
––– a letter addressed, Wm. J. Fisher, 10th Regular U. S. Infantry, Army of the Potomac, Sykes Brigade, via Old Point Comfort, VA, will reach him if he is there; otherwise it will be opened and answered by his friends or his officers—
We will do all we can, but do not let this stop you. Write to him as if you knew he was all well, until you hear from him.
Yours truly, Garrett Luff
Garret Luff to Isaac Fisher
Garret Luff to Isaac Fisher
Garret Luff to Isaac Fisher
