A letter from Thomas D. Day is in the University of North Carolina Archives, Chapel Hill, Collection Number: 00924 , the "John Perkins Papers, 1822-1885," Correspondence, Subseries 1.3 1861-April 1865.

Letter of 23 December, 1862. Thomas D. Day, aide to Brig. Gen. D. M. Frost, written to Perkins from a camp near Van Buren Ark., describes recent military engagements in Arkansas.

John