Three cards pre-printed on the back-strips of book pages and wall paper. Printing reads: “Office Post Quartermaster/ Shreveport, LA”, stating that “The Stage will furnish transportation from Shreveport,” to a particular place, for a particular person. Two cards are, dated April 7, 1865, and detail a two stage journey for Major R.P. Rowley, the first stage from Shreveport to Greenwood, LA, the second from Greenwood, LA to Marshall Texas. The third undated card authorizes transportation for Major R.P. Rowley from Marshall, Texas to Navasota, Texas. All are numbered “2020”, and signed by “T.R. Heard, Major and P.Q.M.” In protective sleeve, accompanied by documentation.

These cards are from a collection of war-time correspondence of R.P. Rowley who served in various posts, at various ranks, with the Confederate Corps of Army Engineers. Rowley was a talented Arkansas native who was promoted eventually to Lt. Colonel, serving first with the Army of Tennessee and later in the Trans-Miss Dept., where he superintended engineering projects in the districts of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. At the wars end he returned to Arkansas, serving in the state legislature, residing on a Mississippi River plantation in Lonoke County, where he died in 1899. This voluminous collection mentions numerous officers connected with the Army of Tennessee and Trans-Miss. Engineering corps.

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