SPOTSYLVANIA
COURT-HOUSE, May 13, 1864.
Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.:
I beg leave to recommend the following promotions to be made
for gallant and distinguished services in the last eight days' battles, to wit:
Brig. Gen. H. G. Wright and Brig. Gen. John Gibbon to be major-generals; Col.
S.S. Carroll, Eighth Ohio Volunteers, Col. E. Upton, One hundred and
twenty-first New York Volunteers; Col. William McCandless, Second Pennsylvania
Reserves, to be brigadier-generals. I would also recommend Maj. Gen. W. S.
Hancock for brigadier-general in the regular army. His services and qualifications
are eminently deserving of this recognition.
In making these recommendations I do not wish the claims of
General G. M. Dodge for promotion forgotten, but recommend his name to be sent
in at the same time. I would also ask to have General Wright assigned to the
command of the Sixth Army Corps. I would further ask the confirmation of
General Humphreys to the rank of major-general. General Meade has more than met
my most sanguine expectations. He and Sherman are the fittest officers for
large commands I have come in contact with. If their services can be rewarded
by promotion to the rank of major-generals in the regular army the honor would
be worthily bestowed, and I would feel personally gratified. I would not like
to see one of these promotions at this time without seeing both.
U.S. GRANT,
Lieutenant-General.
SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
36, Part 2 (Serial No. 68), p. 695; George Meade, The Life and Letters
of George Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 196
