Letter
George Wright to Adjutant-General THOMAS, April 4, 1862
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, Cal., April 4, 1862.
Adjutant-General THOMAS, Washington, D. C.: Your dispatch of the 25th ultimo received, and officers ordered East. I beg leave to respectfully recommend to the Honorable Secretary of War that Colonel Carleton be appointed brigadier. He has a large district, with thirty companies of troops, and intrusted with an important expedition.
G. WRIGHT,
Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, Commanding.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Charleston Harbor, S.C., 1861. Location: San Francisco, Cal..
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 1
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