Talk:James J. Wilson

Bust of Major-General James Wilson
I suspect that the Bust of Major-General James Wilson at West Point portays General James H. Wilson, not General James J. Wilson. James H. was an important figure in the Civil War, and a major-general. James J. was a brigadier-general in the War of 1812, but never attained the rank of major-general.

Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) notes that the West Point bust was listed as "James J.", then changed to "James H.", but doesn't resolve the confusion.

I'll leave things as they are on this page for now, but change it to James H. on the page for James E. Kelly (artist). == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 19:49, 24 November 2012 (UTC)


 * The James Harrison Wilson Papers at the Library of Congress contain a 26-year correspondence between Major General James H. Wilson and "the sculptor James Edward Kelly." See Box 53. Although this is not absolutely definitive -- West Point doesn't seem to have a complete online list of its sculpture -- it does convince me that "James J." was a typo at SIRIS, and it always should have been "James H." == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 20:21, 24 November 2012 (UTC)