Lee's Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America, 1862-65, from the Private Collections of Wymberley Jones De Renne ...

Robert Edward Lee

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915 - Confederate States of America - 400 pages

Contents

• Surmises of the Federal plansImboden in Western: 4
• July 25 1862: 10
• No: 16
• Headquarters on the Mechanicsville Turnpike: 17
• July 2 1862: 25
• Thanks for offer of horsesTraveller and the other: 26
• July 30 1862: 28
• Colonel Micah Jenkins record Recommended: 33
• May 18 1864: 34
• July 25 1863: 38
• Colonel William Smith and his commandWhere shall: 40
• No 21: 50
• August 26 1862: 53
• Victory on the plains of Manassas: 59
• Can Jackson strike into Pennsylvania while Lee holds: 65
• January 10 1865: 68
• Papers for the President 126: 69
• June 7 1862: 73
• No: 75
• No: 78
• Report of Mosbys raidshis prizes: 83
• April 7 1864: 84
• April 15 1864: 86
• October 7 1864: 89
• No: 94
• RansomFrench: 96
• Longstreet a capital soldierDick AndersonAbility: 98
• June 15 1864: 100
• June 7 1863: 102
• July 46 1864: 103
• July 31 1863: 105
• movements 226: 108
• situation 316: 116
• Jenkins will report to Samuel Jones: 124
• No 31: 125
• No: 126
• Rossers successes and prizes: 134
• March 11 1863: 139
• May 22 1864: 140
• Ransoms troops behave badlyHuger must hold: 142
• No: 151
• The policy of pardonsAmnesties and desertions: 154
• No: 160
• April 23 1864: 162
• trade with the North 318: 163
• advance 190: 166
• No 92: 169
• No: 175
• No 155: 176
• No: 181
• No: 187
• No 105: 189
• No: 193
• No: 194
• No 106: 198
• No: 200
• May 18 1864: 202
• No: 204
• May 30 1864: 210
• Beauregard: 212
• men 197: 214
• June 25 1862: 216
• William Duncan SmithR H Anderson and Huger: 239
• May 25 1864: 241
• No 40: 244
• June 16 1864: 246
• for the Valley campaign: 252
• them 221: 253
• June 9 1864: 259
• Whitings complaintHis positionShould do his best: 263
• Woods expedition against Point Lookout is discussed: 264
• No 149: 269
• July 10 1864: 272
• Northern papers on Earlys raidits good effectsThe: 279
• The enemy is waiting for reinforcementsWe will: 288
• May 18 1864: 296
• Federal raid on Saltville repulsed: 299
• January 8 1865: 305
• The defence of Charleston and of Carolina: 312
• at the hands of the enemy: 328
• Activities of the Federal fleet in the JamesError: 340
• Andersons operations on the Boydton plank road: 355
• March 21 1863: 357
• Index: 361

Bibliographic information

• Title: Lee's Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America, 1862-65, from the Private Collections of Wymberley Jones De Renne ...; American Civil War, letters and diaries
• Author: Robert Edward Lee
• Editor: Douglas Southall Freeman
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Nov 26, 2008
• Length: 400 pages