- 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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