Gouverneur K. Warren 1830 1882 Union major general who fought at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and at Gettysburg where he was superior officer of Joshua L. Chamberlain and ordered Chamberlain to hold Little Round Top War date A.L.S. I p. 4to army of the Potomac Camp on James River July 8, 1862 to Adj. Gen Thomas Hillhouse. Warren has received a letter from a sergeant married to Warren cousin He presumes the man is seeking a promotion If he is deserving I should be most pleased to see him commissioned and tries to avoid the issue citing regulations against nepotism. He adds in initiated postscript our regiments behaved most gallantly in the late battles