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HistoryForSalesm Autographs & ManuscriptsMake an Offer Today and Get a Quick Response!BRIGADIER GENERAL MARCUS J. WRIGHT - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 08/13/1860 - HFSID 273015THE FUTURE CONFEDERATE GENERAL AND HISTORIAN RECOMMENDS A YOUNG MAN FOR WEST POINTMARCUS J. WRIGHT. ALS: \"Marcus J Wright\", 1p, 7¾x9¾. Memphis, 1860 August 13. To William T. Avery. Begins: \"Dear Sir\". In full: \"Our mutual friend Wm P. Rienes of this county has a son Duff D. Pienes aged 16 years who has been for some time past engaged with Miner Merriwether engineering and who is represented to me as a very [illegible] good Boy. Where he is anxious to get appointed to West Point, I write this to speak in his behalf as I am satisfied it would give satisfaction to your friends his politics differing from yours notwithstanding. I have written you twice lately and forwarded you millions of letters nothing new Your friend\". At the time of this letter, Wright was a successful attorney who would enter service in the Confederate Army the following year. MARCUS JOSEPH WRIGHT (1831-1922) is best known for his histories and memoirs of the South and Southern leaders. The writer of some 50 biographical sketches of Confederate commanders for Appleton\'s Cyclopedia of American Biography, Wright co-wrote (with General A.L. Long) Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, and he wrote a number of other books as well. In 1878, Wright was tapped by the War Department as an Agent for the Collection of Confederate Records. He was a member of the Southern Historical Association, the Southern Historical Society, the Washington, D.C. Historical Society and the Alabama Historical Society. Wright, who had begun his service to the Confederacy as a Lieutenant Colonel with the 154 Senior Regiment Tennessee Infantry, served on the staff of Cheatham\'s Division, and he saw action at Shiloh, where he was wounded, Chickamauga and Atlanta. Wright, who was promoted to Brigadier General in December 1862, is one of only two Confederate Generals interred at Arlington National Cemetery (the other is Joseph Wheeler). WILLIAM TECUMSEH AVERY (1819-1880) was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Tennessee at the time of this letter (1857-1861). Avery, who had previously served in the Tennessee State House of Representatives (1843), would join the Confederate army as a Colonel at the outbreak of the Civil War. Lightly creased with folds, vertical fold at the \"s\" of Marcus. ¾-inch separation at blank right margin at mid-horizontal fold, ½-inch separation at lower blank margin at vertical fold, ½-inch separation at lower right blank edge. Three pinholes at vertical fold. Lightly soiled, circular stains touch some writing (all legible). Verso is heavily soiled with stray ink mark (no show through). Overall, fine condition.
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