Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909 to Henry Jackson Hunt

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GLC#
GLC02382.129-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
January 22, 1884
Author/Creator
Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909
Title
to Henry Jackson Hunt
Place Written
Chicago, Illinois
Pagination
2 p. : envelope Height: 21.8 cm, Width: 13.2 cm
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
The Gilded Age

Corbin recently requested the support of eighteen United States Representatives for a bill granting Brevet Major General Hunt, Colonel retired, the rank of Major General on the retired list. Transmits to Hunt the favorable replies of several Representatives (refer to GLC02382.124-.128). Notes that one of the Representatives who replied, Joseph Warren Keifer, was formerly speaker of the House. States "If you do not already know him, You had better make it a point to meet him Don't get disappointed and give up- but go right & I feel that you will succeed... " Sends his regards to Hunt's family. Writes from Headquarters, Division of the Missouri. Corbin served as Union Brevet Brigadier General during the Civil War.

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