In a letter dated 5 May 1862, Andrew Brown (C) warns his father and sister about an ongoing scam:
if any Body should stop in and tell you that the [sic] are coming down here and ask you to send anything to me dont [sic] do it[.] there is a fellow now in Philadelphia that used to Be our quarter masters sargent[.] he has been to two or three of the mens [sic] houses and got ten dollars from one Eight from another and got apples cakes tobacco segars and several other things from different People[.] he also went to the family of one of the men that died down here and asked them to give him some money to pay the Expenses of fetching him to Philadelphia[.] the [sic] gave him some and that was the last the [sic] seen [sic] of him[.]