Edwin B. Wight Resignation

Col. Henry Morrow
Comd'g 24th Mich Vols.

Sir:-
I herewith tender my resignation as Major of the 24th Mich. Vols. - The same to be immediate and unconditional for the following reasons -

I have been absent from the Regiment since about the first of last July when I was wounded in the right eye at the battle of Gettysburg. Since then I have for the most part of the time been closely confined to the house. I am still considered by my attending physician to be unfit for duty.

The best advice I can obtain from consultation with the most skillful oculists in the country is to the effect that I shall regain the sight of the injured eye, that the other will always be more or less sympathetically affected by the injury - rendering me unfit to engage in active filed service & liable upon exposure to be wholly blinded.

With this future before me, I believe that the best interests of the service, the welfare of the Regiment, demands my departure from it & I therefore reluctantly from necessity tender you the resignation of the commission I now hold.

I am Sir

Most Respectfully Yours

Edwin B. Wight
Major 24th Mich. Vols.

Dated
New York City September 15, 1863

This Letter is Courtesy of the State Archives of Michigan