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    George Wadleigh

    Birth: 1845

    Death: unknown

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George Wadleigh was the private secretary to George Butler when he was U.S. Consul General for Egypt. Wadleigh was part of the party that entertained William Henry Seward during his visit to Egypt in 1871.

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George Wadleigh was the private secretary to George Butler when he was U.S. Consul General for Egypt. Wadleigh was part of the party that entertained William Henry Seward during his visit to Egypt in 1871.

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Newspaper Article
Journal or Newspaper Title: 
New Orleans Republican
Month: 
August
Day: 
11
Year: 
1872
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page 2, image 2
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The ancestry records included in this entry are the most likely match for Major George Wadleigh in the newspaper accounts from Egypt. George Russell Wadleigh was born in Boston around 1845, was a calvary officer in the Civil War, was injured at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, was listed on an 1881 English Census in London with his wife, Agnes Newcomb Wadleigh, and their children and his wife's parents, and had 2 records at U.S. National Homes for Disabled Veterans. The article mentions Wadleigh was wounded twice and served as an aide to Gen. Burnside, who was at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. The period Wadleigh was in Egypt would have occurred between the time he fought in the Franco-Prussian War and the time he married his wife. It is all plausible, but there are not definitive ties linking the person mentioned in the newspaper article with his George Russell Wadleigh who is traced in the primary records, but he seems to be the most likely fit at this point.
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Original data: Historical Register of National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1749, 282 rolls); Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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