Marcus Joseph Wright Papers, 1792-1949

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Marcus Joseph Wright Papers, 1792-1949

Marcus Joseph Wright Papers, 1792-1949

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Marcus Joseph Wright, Confederatebrigadier general and military historian, worked for 30 years, beginning in 1878, asagent of the U.S. War Department charged with collecting and compiling officialConfederate army records. The collection includes correspondence, early memoirs,and other papers of Wright. Included is post-Civil War correspondence withex-Confederate leaders concerning military history, his work, and variouspublications. Also included are letters, 1831-1860, of Wright's father-in-law,planter and politican John W. Womack of Eutaw, Green County, Ala., to his brotherJacob Lewis Womack, planter of Ridgeville, Butler County, Ala., concerning familymatters, cotton planting, the Alabama legislature, and the coming war. There arealso papers, 1929-1945, of Wright's son, Howard P. Wright, that deal chiefly withhis father and Confederate history, as well as genealogical notes on the Wrightfamily of McNairy County, Tenn., and photographs, loose clippings, and scrapbooks ofclippings, chiefly relating to Confederate history.

850; 2.5

eng,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection