Recd at Richmond Aug at 9 o’clock. By Telegraph from Head Quarters Manassas Junction 9 o’clock P.M. 29 Via Rapidan 30
To Presdt Davis
So far this Army has steadily advanced and repulsed the frequent attacks of the enemy. The line of the Rappahannock and Warrenton has been relieved. Many prisoners are captured and I regret quantities of stores to be destroyed for want of transportation. Anderson not yet up and I hear nothing of those behind. We have Ewell, Trimble and Taliaferro wounded. The latter slightly, the others not mortal.
R. E. Lee
[Endorsed] 67 Coll 268 J4
W. J. De Renne CollectionWormsloe, Chatham County, Georgia (1914)
Printed in Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee’s Dispatches, Dispatch No. 28.