Wright, Marcus J. (Marcus Joseph), 1831-1922
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1831 - 1922
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1274
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the records are requisitions for clothing, accoutrements, forage, and other quartermaster supplies sent to the Army of Tennessee before, during, and after the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Also included are payment records for military officers and purchases of services and provisions from civilian contractors in Atlanta, Georgia; Augusta, Georgia; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Richmond, Virginia. Most of the records were approved and signed by Quartermaster Henry Thomas Massengale...
Dates:
1859-1865, undated
Marcus J. Wright papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS415f
Scope and Content
This collection contains typed transcriptions of 36 official letters and orders written by Brigadier General Marcus J. Wright with the Army of Tennessee, headquartered in northwest Georgia, and then Atlanta. The collection also contains newspaper clippings regarding General Wrights' uniform.
Dates:
1862-1942
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 1
- Augusta (Ga.) -- History 1
- Confederate States of America -- Armed Forces -- Equipment 1
- Confederate States of America -- Armed Forces -- Officers 1
- Confederate States of America -- Armed Forces -- Uniforms 1
- Enslaved persons -- Confederate States of America 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Knoxville (Tenn.) -- History 1
- Money -- Confederate States of America 1
- Prisoners of war -- Georgia -- Andersonville 1
- Quartermasters -- Confederate States of America. 1
- Railroad engineering -- Georgia 1
- Requisitions, Military 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Equipment and supplies 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1 + ∧ less
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