Raynors HCA 2015-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/19/2015
War-date Confederate letter by Colonel Moses H. Wright addressed to Captain Massengale, 1pp. quarto, Atlanta, Georgia, October 4, 1863, and reads in part: "...You will at once fill the requisition for 60 sacks, pillow cases & straw - for the use of the sick at the Military Prison - Made by Maj. J.K. McCall, Comd Post..." Fine condition. Moses H. Wright was born in Tennessee and attended West Point from 1854 to 1859. He graduated seventh in his class and served in the U.S. Ordnance Bureau at New York and St. Louis. At the outbreak of the war, Wright joined the Confederate Ordnance Bureau and moved to Nashville. Wright stayed in Nashville through the fire at the Nashville Arsenal on 23 December 1861 until February 1862 when he moved the entire arsenal to Atlanta. Wright, at the age of twenty-six, had worked the Atlanta Arsenal into a massive organization producing almost every size of ammunition and type of accoutrement, including more than 4 million rounds of ammunition and nearly 25 million percussion caps per year. The arsenal employed more than 450 people a month with operating expenditures averaging $1.5 million per year.
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