Sold – Meade Agrees to Write a Letter of Recommendation for a Former Union Officer
"...you are the major of the 1st Pa. Artillery serving on McCall’s staff during the Peninsular movement.".
Union general.
Autograph Letter Signed, 2 separate pages 8vo, (Philadelphia), Feb. 19, 1867 to former Union major Alfred E. Lewis of the First Pennsylvania artillery, who served under him during the Seven Days battles. “I have on all previous occasions declined giving letters of recommendation for civil or political officials. If,...
Union general.
Autograph Letter Signed, 2 separate pages 8vo, (Philadelphia), Feb. 19, 1867 to former Union major Alfred E. Lewis of the First Pennsylvania artillery, who served under him during the Seven Days battles. “I have on all previous occasions declined giving letters of recommendation for civil or political officials. If, however, your application is based on your military record, I have no objection to writing what I know upon this subject. I am, however, embarassed somewhat in identifying you, as you only give your name & unit rank & regiment. I presume, or rather guess, you are the major of the 1st Pa. Artillery serving on McCall’s staff during the Peninsular movement. If I were certain on this point I could send you the letter…If you will relieve my doubts on this point & spark my memory of your service & state to whom you desire the letter to be addressed, I will with pleasure comply with your request.”
Meade could be cantankerous and was not an easy man from whom to obtain a recommendation for post-war employment. However, here, the wording of the request and his memory of the writer as a staff officer he knew in 1862 made the difference.
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