Received at Richmond May 7 1863 By telegraph from Fredericksburg
To His Excely Prest. Davis
I desire Genl Rodes to command D. H. Hill’s old Division. He is a good soldier behaved admirably in the last battles and deserves promotion. Genl Johnson will command Trimbles Division. Genl Trimble is still disabled and I fear will not be able to take the field.
R. E. Lee Genl
[Endorsed] Telegram from Genl Lee 47/141 Fredericksburg May 7 1863
W. J. De Renne CollectionWormsloe, Chatham County, Georgia (1914)
Printed in Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee’s Dispatches, Dispatch No. 46.