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Meade, George Gordon (1815-1872) to Henry W. Halleck

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03801.03 Author/Creator: Meade, George Gordon (1815-1872) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Letter Date: 19 July 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 25.5 x 19.6 cm. Order a Copy

Recommending Brigadier General Gouverner K. Warren for nomination as Major General. Warren would soon receive the promotion. Clerically signed with Meade's name. Also signed by David C. Wager, Assistant Adjutant General. Written on stationery of the Office of the U.S. Military Telegraph, War Department.

Halleck, Henry Wager, 1815-1872
Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872
Wager, David Collin, fl. 1863

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