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- GLC#
- GLC06587
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 22 July 1862
- Author/Creator
- Adams, Alexander D., 1832-1872
- Title
- [Petition to New York Governor Edwin D. Morgan seeking military policy changes]
- Place Written
- Harrison Landing, Virginia
- Pagination
- 7 p. : Height: 26.2 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Signed by several New York officers and endorsed by prominent Union generals Joseph Bartlett, John Newton, Winfield S. Hancock, and Henry W. Slocum, among others. Seeks to institute policy changes in order to fill the ranks for New York regiments. Includes two pages of regiment statistics. Lieutenant Colonel Adams was the first signed among the New York officers.
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