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- GLC#
- GLC02382.110-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 22 July 1876
- Author/Creator
- Wetmore, William, 1749-1830
- Title
- to Henry Jackson Hunt
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 25.4 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Possibly served under Hunt during the Civil War. Thanks Hunt for letters of introduction he used while traveling the world. Mentions Colonel Talbot, Lieutenant Colonel Peel, and Earl Stanhope, who assisted him greatly while he stayed in London. Remarks that the Comte de Paris and Duke de Chartres were away when he was in France. Traveled through Japan, China, Malaysia, Ceylon, India, and other locales. Mentions military reunions. Discusses a cavalryman who recently died; Wetmore attests that his service eclipsed the charge of the 13th British Light Brigade at Balaclava, Ukraine, 1854
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