Raynors HCA 2017-12
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WRIGHT, Marcus (1831-1922) as a lawyer, author, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He was agent for collection of Confederate records for War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, a U.S. War Department publication. In 1863-64 he was in charge of the district of Atlanta. After the evacuation of the city he commanded at Macon, Georgia. At the end of the war, he commanded the District of North Mississippi and West Tennessee. He was paroled May 19, 1865 at Grenada, Mississippi. Document Twice Signed “Marcus J. Wright, BriGen,” on pre-printed Confederate form, 1pp., 1864,VG. Wright approves “one pair of shoes” for Sgt. “Thomas E. Patterson, Co. G., 35th Georgia Infantry,”
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