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Robert E. Lee
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John B. Floyd
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GeneralI am directed by Genl Lee to say in reply to your communication of the 5th int. concerning an arrangement for carrying an express mail between these Head Qrs & your command, said to have...
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1861
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Robert E. Lee
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John B. Floyd
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GenlSince writing the all impt note I have thought, that should you not have heard of any movements of the enemy rendering the withdrawal of the troops from this place necessary, & could send...
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Sep. 25, 1861
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Robert E. Lee
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John B. Floyd
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GenlBy direction of Gen Lee I enclose a list of “absentees without leave” from Col. Tompkins, 22nd Va: regt; the Colonel supposes these men have ret’d to your camp & you are requested to cause...
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Sep. 28, 1861
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Robert E. Lee
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John B. Floyd
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GenlGen Lee directs me to say that the accompanying dispatches were forwarded to your camp this morning by the usual road (turnpike); that the messenger ret’d saying it was impossible to get to...
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Sep. 28, 1861
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Robert E. Lee
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John B. Floyd
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I am directed by Gen Lee to request you to furnish him with the information concerning the salt which you were kind enough to procure for him, & which is at Lewisburg. He wishes to make...
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Oct. 10, 1861
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John Withers
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John B. Floyd
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XIII. To secure correctness in the Register of Officers serving in the Provisional Army of the Confed. States, to be sent in to Congress at its next meeting, commanders of all separate bodies of...
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Oct. 18, 1861
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Robert E. Lee
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John B. Floyd
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General: It has been reported to me tonight that General Rosecrans was sending a strong a detachment across New River to intercept you. I believe he is aware of yiu having crossed New River, but if...
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Oct. 20, 1861
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