[Letter requesting an exemption but never mailed,
dated nine days before Jesse Albert Shipman’s death on July 22]

N.C. Henderson county July the 13 1863
govner vance dear sir owing to the
condition of Andrew R Shipmans
family we the under signd do ask you
to Exempt him from state service
the said shipman is in his 44 year
has only one son which was only 18
years old when the war Began he volunt
ert for 3 years or during the was in the
1st Redg of NC cav his wife is
dead and he has 4 little girls and
noboddy to leave with them his
Father is 85 years old and A criple
and will hav no one els to control
his negroes or protect him and his
home