United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Henry A. Wise Letter
Collection
Identifier: SC 00278
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a letter from Brigadier General Henry A. Wise, Lewisberg [sic], Va. [W. Va.], to Adjutant and Inspector General Samuel Cooper, no place. The dispatch is reporting troop strength at Gauley Bridge and reports on guns and ammunition. He writes that the area is unsound. At a place called Williamsburg [W. Va.?], there is "a violent Yankee partisan, a Dr. Thatcher" who shot at his [HAW] orderly, wounding him in the head. Wise asks that three field officers--Col. J. Lucius...
Dates:
1861 June 20
Found in:
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