This letter from General Alex. S. Webb is made a part of this paper:
NEW YORK MONUMENTS COMMISSION
BATTLE FIELDS OF GETTYSBURG AND
CHATANOOGA
RIVERDALE-ON-HUDSON
NEW YORK.
September 7, 1909.
My dear Frazier:
I could not find your address, but I had Dampman's, and wrote to him to
try and obtain action on Haskell's book which is now circulated by the
thousands to take from our Brigade and its Commander all the glory and
reputation we acquired at the Bloody Angle of Gettysburg.
So make it certain that our answer to the Massachusetts Commandery be
strong and clear. What Haskell wrote he wrote in ignorance. He paraded
with the stragglers and prisoners behind a fighting Brigade and thought
he was leading a Division.
Now, Frazier, let this denial of Haskell's claim be strong and yet
courteous. He is dead. Gibbon is dead. Hancock dead. What a time to
proclaim this falsehood.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) ALEX. S. WEBB,
Brevet Maj. General, U. S. A.