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Autograph letter signed

to A.H. Bowman

07 July 1855

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

Justifies the use of an ornate molding of the Capitol Dome.

GLC08246.01
Collection Item
Letter signed

to J. Glancy Jones

24 June 1858

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

Meigs allays concerns over the Capitol Dome's stability: "There were plenty of people, who when Michel Angelo was building the Dome of St. Peter's thought it would never stand..." Jones was on the House Ways & Means Committee.

GLC08246.02
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Captain Andrew H. Foote

25 November 1861

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

"Whatever I can do to assist you in gaining final success which you say 'is with the public this test of merit' I will gladly do. Final success I do not doubt for you...Wellington Napoleon Marlborough did much more than merely fight. A commander...

GLC09164
GLC07059.07
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to: his son.

circa December 18, 1860

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

GLC07059.07
GLC07363
Collection Item
Letter signed

to C. L. Pascal

11 April 1862

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

Written by Brigadier General Meigs as Quartermaster General of the Army. References Pascal's letter of 6 April 1862 that enclosed illustrations of his plan for sinking the CSS "Merrimac." Says they have been referred to the Secretary of the Navy...

GLC07363

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