Gibbon, John, 1827-1896 to Henry Jackson Hunt
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02382.050 Author/Creator: Gibbon, John, 1827-1896 Place Written: Fort Laramie, Wyoming Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 7 November 1883 Pagination: 4 p. ; 22.8 x 27.5 cm. Order a Copy
Discusses what he calls a travesty of justice regarding a Court of Inquiry held in the case of Lieutenant Ernest Albert Garlington. Garlington led the Greely Relief Expedition expedition in the Arctic. The expedition failed, and in the process the ship Proteus was destroyed after Garlington sailed into Smith Sound, Newfoundland. Hunt's son was a member of another one of the Greely Relief Expeditions. Written at Fort Laramie.
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