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- GLC#
- GLC02649.32-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 3 May 1866
- Author/Creator
- Pope, John, 1822-1892
- Title
- to Andrew Jackson Smith
- Place Written
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 24.6 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
A copy of GLC02649.31 (so marked), but with a different place of address and date. Pope recommends to Major General Smith that McParlin be brevetted to the ranks of Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel for his service on 29-30 August 1862 (Second Battle of Manassas) and Brigadier General for his service as Medical Director of the Army of Virginia since 1 September 1862. Recounts McParlin's service as a surgeon during combat and his expert handling of patients. In part: "He [McParlin] was present at the front in every engagement and it is not too much to say that from first to last he not only performed his duties with ability - and fidelity, but that his whole conduct was remarkable for energy, devotion to the public interests and to the care of the sick and wounded…" On stationery of the Headquarters of the Gulf, Medical Director's Office. Unclear if this has been signed clerically or by Pope himself.
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