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- GLC#
- GLC02382.079-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 11, 1887
- Author/Creator
- Long, A.L., 1827-1891
- Title
- to Henry Jackson Hunt
- Place Written
- Charlottesville, Virginia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : envelope Height: 24.9 cm, Width: 19.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Responds to Hunt's Gettysburg article as the "best" he has read and notes he is writing his own account. Long was a veteran artilleryman promoted from military secretary for Lee to the command of the 2nd Corps artillery. Promoted to 2nd Corps guns in 1863 at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor. Surrendered with the main army at Appomattox. Civil engineer after the war for five years. Wrote "Memoirs of Robert E. Lee" despite being completely blind.
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