A Guide to the William B. Wood Letter, 1863
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Special Collections
Collection Number
Ms1988-069
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Scope and Content
Confederate colonel in the Civil War; chief of General James Longstreet's military corps. Letter written on October 14, 1863, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, about an invitation Wood received to run for a senator of the Confederate States. Wood felt he had been passed over for military promotion and wished to return to civilian life. Transcript available.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Civil War
- Confederate States of America
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865