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Wright, Horatio Gouverneur (1820-1899) [Statement concerning the service of Lieutenants Hayden and Hubbell]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02464.21 Author/Creator: Wright, Horatio Gouverneur (1820-1899) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 31 December 1863 Pagination: 1 p. ; 20 x 12.5 cm. Order a Copy

Major General Wright confirms that Lieutenants T.L. Hayden (possibly Thomas Lloyd Hayden), 7th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, and Henry Wilson Hubbell, 40th Regiment, New York Volunteers served as Wright's aides-de-camp from January 1862 to August 1863, and "are entitled to pay as such during that period."

Wright, Horatio Gouverneur, 1820-1899
Hubbell, Henry Wilson, 1842-?
Hayden, Thomas Lloyd, fl. 1861-1865

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