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to Horatio G. Wright
April 18, 1859
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893
Discussing the poor health of a "promising...young officer" and possibility of "another such terrible epidemic" as had recently hit the men.
GLC03499
to friends at home
22 October 1864
Morey, Charles C., fl. 1830-1865
Recounts battles occurring on 19 October, most likely the Battle of Cedar Creek. Mentions General Philip Sheridan's influence on the morale of troops and Horatio Gouverneur Wright's inability to command. Recounts retreat of rebels: "...they broke...
GLC03523.18.29
to Louisa M. Bradford Wright
26 October 1864
Wright, Horatio G., 1820-1899
Major General Wright replies to a letter from his wife while "In the field," following the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia. Mentions an enclosed dispatch (within the letter from his wife) from General Philip Sheridan. Referring to Sheridan's...
GLC04065
to Ulysses S. Grant
25 March 1865
Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872
Major General Meade writes to Lieutenant General Grant to report on a unsuccessful Confederate attacks on Fort Stedman, the repulse of the enemy, and subsequent movements of Union forces under Generals Parke, Wright, and Humphreys. Written a few...
GLC03549
to George Gordon Meade
2 April 1865
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Grant, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army, writes from Headquarters of the Armies of the United States to Meade, Commander of the Army of the Potomac. Discussing an assault on Petersburg, states that General Horatio Wright can contribute...
GLC04907.01
to Andrew Atkinson Humphreys
10 October circa 1863
Sedgwick, John, 1813-1864
Year inferred from content. General Sedgwick writes to Humphreys as "Maj Genl Humphries Chief of Staff." Discusses the position of heavy artillery at [Piney?] Mountain. Notes that General Wright (possibly Horatio Wright) will examine the artillery...
GLC02464.16.01
General McClellan
December 16, 1861
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Shortly after General Winfield Scott's retirement as head of the U.S. army, Lincoln writes to General McClellan, Scott's successor. Lincoln asks him to find a place for Major Wright, a member of Scott's former staff. McClellan's note on the verso...
GLC00343
Statement concerning the service of Lieutenants Hayden and Hubbell
December 31, 1863
Wright, Horatio Gouverneur, 1820-1899
Major General Wright confirms that Lieutenants T.L. Hayden (possibly Thomas Lloyd Hayden), 7th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, and Henry Wilson Hubbell, 40th Regiment, New York Volunteers served as Wright's aides-de-camp from January 1862 to August...
GLC02464.21
to Horatio Wright
13 October 1865
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888
Enclosing an order sending General Frederick Steele to the Department of the Columbia, and stating that General Godfrey Weitzel should replace him. The third page is written vertically. One full length seated engraving of Sheridan included.
GLC03431
New-York Daily Tribune. [Vol. 22, no. 6786 (January 3, 1863)]
3 January 1863
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
One newspaper issue of New-York Daily Tribune, dated January 3, 1863. Prints the Emancipation Proclamation on page four. This is among the early printings of the Proclamation in a newspaper. Other news includes the Battle of Murfreesboro with map...
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