1858 - circa 1897

Wright, Miller A., fl. 1861-1864

Header Record

Title: [Personal and military correspondence and documents related to August or Miller Wright] [decimalized]

More than half of these items, to, from, or relating to Augustus or Miller Wright, are Civil War-period. Includes an 9 February 1864 autograph letter signed from Walter Herron Taylor, aide to Robert E. Lee, regarding General Lee's refusal to approve transfers without consultation of commanding officers; a 22 April 1864 autograph letter signed from Augustus to Miller Wright, discussing "the great inefficiency in our officers" and a "very odious" conscription bill; a 20 July 1864 pass issued to Miller Wright by Joseph Rollins, Jr., by order of General Vandever; a 8 September 1864 autograph…

GLC02691.11

14 November 1865

Wright, Miller A., fl. 1861-1864

Printed document signed

Title: [$75 dollars sent by way of the Southern Express Company to A.N. Wilson's collector's office in Savannah, Georgia]

GLC02691.11.090

August 1891

Wright, Miller A., fl. 1861-1864

Autograph note

Title: [personal note]

Personal note on Miller's own stationary, which reads "Office of Miller A. Wright, Dealer in Clothing and Gent's Furnishing Goods. Cedartown, GA.,______189__." The note is titled "The Perfect Child of Destiny;" there are religious themes.

GLC02691.11.095

24 December 1894

Wright, Miller A., fl. 1861-1864

Autograph note

Title: [financial statement]

Note on Miller's own stationary which reads "Miller A. Wright, Dr., Dealer in Dry Good, Clothing, Notions, Boots, Shoes and Hats." Financial statement. There are numerical quantities listed in the right margin, while text fills the rest of the page. The last page has been ripped in half, and only the bottom half is present. It reads: "Will Burns has some notes of mine against me that are settled and went to get them today-But he kept them for the purposes of having the mortgage cancelled-He will turn them over."

GLC02691.11.097

25 November 1863

Wright, Miller A., fl. 1861-1864

Autograph note

Title: to Private Hendrix

Leave of absence given by Miller to a private Hendrix.

GLC02691.11.048

23 December 1864

Wright, Miller A., fl. 1861-1864

Autograph note signed

Title: [calculations]

Written on an auction house ledger. Several simple calculations fill the reverse.

GLC02691.11.075

10 August 1861

Wright, Miller A., fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his brother

Miller has heard that there will be "a great battle to Come off soon" and that his brother may be slated to fight in it. "We have no news here all is uneasy as to the results of the coming Contest..." He also expresses some doubts about the war: "Courage fails when there is nothing but suffering no hope of martial triumph. But remember those who fought in the revolution they fought with but little hope of glory...there whole military life was one of suffering ...a man an die with composure perhaps with triumph when there is an eye to admire & a tongue to praise...but to die unknelled…

GLC02691.11.015

circa 1880 - 1910

Wright, Miller A., fl. 1861-1864

Header Record

Title: [14 newspaper clippings relating primarily to the Spanish-American War] [Decimalized .01- .14]

GLC02691.12

1877

Wright, Miller A., fl. 1861-1864

Newspaper clipping

Title: I Guess We have Had Our Day

A poem about the unfurling of the confederate flag at a reunion of veterans.

GLC02691.12.04