Sender: Robert E. Lee, Account with the U.S. Recipient:
[1 July - 23 September 1838]
I Certify, That the journeys within charged have been performed, were necessary for, and have been applied, to the Improvement of the MISSISSIPPI, above the Mouth of the OHIO. For the payment of men, Superintending Operations - The 1st between the 23rd July & 2nd August - and the 2nd between the 12th Septbr. and 23 do.
R E Lee
Lee PapersUniversity of Virginia Archives
1838 Account of Robert E. Lee with the U.S. Government re Improvement of the Mississippi River, Above mouth of Ohio (bottom cut off). The second part, handwritten, does not appear to be Lee's handwriting. However, the signature does. cf 441 Taylor.