14 Received at Richmond May 14 1864. By Telegraph from Spottsylvania C.H. 12 Via Gordonsville 12
To His Excellency Prest. Davis.
In Butler’s official report to Grant May 5th he states that he has the Eighteenth and Tenth (10) Army Corps [which] have arrived in his Dept. These Corps. came from North & South Carolina Georgia and Florida & constitute most of the Federal Troops in these States. Cannot we now draw more troops from these Depts.
R. E. Lee
[Endorsed] 54 Collect 840 DB. Telegram. R. E. Lee 12 May 64.
W. J. De Renne CollectionWormsloe, Chatham County, Georgia (1914)
Printed in Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee’s Dispatches, Dispatch No. 95.