Lee's Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C. S. A., to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America 1862-65, from the Private Collection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

Robert Edward Lee, Wymberley Jones De Renne

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915 - United States - 400 pages

Contents

• Thanks for offer of horsesTraveller and the other: 3
• Surmises of the Federal plansImboden in Western: 4
• No: 9
• June 29 1862: 15
• July 25 1862 The Louisiana troops and their organizationDick: 16
• July 3 1862: 22
• No: 25
• Colonel Micah Jenkins record Recommended: 33
• We must meet PopeGeneral BranchMorgan in Ken: 38
• No: 39
• No: 42
• No: 52
• August 2 1862: 53
• Victory on the plains of Manassas: 59
• Papers for the President 126: 69
• March 111863: 73
• No: 75
• No: 78
• July 16 1863 Reasons for withdrawal across the PotomacPettigrews: 79
• Weather conditionsTransportation of supplies: 80
• April 7 1864: 84
• No: 86
• May 7 1863: 91
• No: 92
• No: 94
• May 26 1863: 98
• No: 102
• No 57: 106
• May 251864 Withdrawal below the AnnasWhere shall the armies: 108
• August 30 1863: 112
• Movement of Jones command: 125
• No: 126
• Rossers successes and prizes: 134
• Railroad cutHamptons cavalry neededSend Cham bliss 258: 142
• July 46 1864 More news from the NorthBurnsides corps 272: 151
• April 13 1864 The policy of pardonsAmnesties and desertions: 154
• July 10 1864 Northern papers on Earlys raidits good effectsThe: 157
• No: 160
• The enemy is waiting for reinforcementsWe will: 166
• October 7 1864 Federal activities on the Rapidan 300: 169
• The murder of MunfordCommunications with: 175
• No: 179
• No: 187
• Conference with General Beauregard: 191
• No: 193
• No: 195
• Destruction of the Meadow Bridgemust be rebuilt: 201
• May 301864: 202
• No: 203
• No 114: 208
• The battle of June 2The enemy repulsedTroops from: 212
• June 6 1864: 221
• Grants whole force is across the riverProtection: 230
• No 132: 240
• May 31 1864: 241
• No 40: 244
• CommunicationsEarlys raidPendletonEwell: 253
• Whitings complaintHis positionShould do his best: 263
• Conditions in North Carolinaplans to better them: 280
• July 3 1864: 283
• Federal raid on Saltville repulsed: 299
• January 28 1865: 305
• The defence of Charleston and of Carolina: 312
• The destruction of cotton etc to save it from capture: 328
• Grant seems to be waiting for reinforcementsShall: 332
• Forms in dealing with the enemy 45: 338
• March 24 1865: 340
• The engagements at Dinwiddie C H and at Hatchers: 352
• August 14 1862: 354
• April 1 1865: 355
• March 21 1863: 357
• Index: 361
• Recommendation of Colonel MorganWithdrawal: 383

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 Collection of Wymberley Jones De Renne ...
• Authors: Robert Edward Lee, Wymberley Jones De Renne
• Editor: Douglas Southall Freeman
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Nov 26, 2008
• Length: 400 pages