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Collection Reference Number GLC03499
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1859 
Title G.T. Beauregard to Horatio G. Wright discussing the possibility of a health epidemic hitting the soldiers
Date 18 April 1859
Author Beauregard, Gustave Toutant (1818-1893)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Discussing the poor health of a "promising...young officer." and possibility of "another such terrible epidemic" as had recently hit the men.
Subjects Epidemic  Civil War  Military History  Confederate States of America  Confederate General or Leader  Health and Medical  Disease  
People Beauregard, Gustave Toutant (1818-1893)  Wright, Horatio Gouverneur (1820-1899)  
Place written New Orleans, Louisiana
Theme Health & Medicine
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Additional Information Horatio G. Wright was an engineer officer, and later general, in the United States Army.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859