[ Autographs ] Edwin D. Morgan 1811-1883 Union major general and Governor of New York. War date L.S. 1p. 4to, Albany, Oct. 26, 1861 onExecutive Department stationery. Morgan writes Secretary of War Simon "...I have recently deemed it necessary... to transfer Capt. L. Barnard from the first regiment of volunteers to the ninth ... finding such changes require the authority of the War Department, I would request your confirmation of such transfer..." Very good.