[Telegram] Dated Mechanicsville June 9 1864. 4.45 P.M. Rec'd at Richmond 6 O'Clock 30 Mins. P.M.
To Genl. Bragg.
Your dispatch of one O'Clock just received. Have ordered Ransom's Brigade' to march by route it came to Gen. Beauregard. If not necessary please countermand order.
R. E. Lee
[Endorsed] Mechanicsville June 9th. R. E. Lee Genl. Has received Dispatch of 1 O'Clock to-day. Has ordered Ransom's Brigade to cross James River by route it came, to report to Beauregard. Asks to be countermanded if not necessary. R.B. 1110 Recd. Had. Qrs. A.C.S. June 9th
W. J. De Renne CollectionWormsloe, Chatham County, Georgia (1914)
Printed in Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee’s Dispatches, Dispatch No. 122.