"Long Sol" Meredith Praises His Iron Brigade After Gettysburg
Life on the Civil War Reserach Trail
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On July 23, 1863, almost three weeks after the Battle of Gettysburg, as Iron Brigade commander Solomon Meredith recovered from wounds in Washington, D.C., he paused his recuperation to write a letter to Wisconsin Gov. Edward Salomon to praise his state's citizen-soldiers. Here's the exchange between the two men.
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