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Letters

2,601-2,650 of 4,644 letters
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2601 Robert E. Lee Joseph E. Johnston I almost wept for joy at the glorious victory achieved by our brave troops on the 21st, & the feelings of my heart Could hardly be expressed on learning the brilliant share you had in its... Jul. 24, 1861
2602 Robert E. Lee Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee I have recd dear Mary your letter from E. View1 and am glad your visit has been so agreable. It is very pleasing to receive the kindness of friends & to enjoy the associations & pleasing... Jul. 27, 1861
2603 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Anne Carter Lee I do not know if [word illegible] you have come to Shirley, but write there to know of your plans I have just returned from a visit of a week to E View & propose making one to Clarke which may... Jul. 30, 1861
2604 Robert E. Lee Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee I reached here yesterday dearest Mary to visit this portion of the Army. The day after my arrival at Staunton I Set off for Monterey, where the Army of Genl Garnett’s Command is stationed. Two... Aug. 4, 1861
2605 Robert E. Lee Alfred Beckley I regret to learn by yr letter of the 6h instant that you hade done nothing towards the organization of yr regt. I cannot now refer to the orders previously send you, but they were supposed at the... Aug. 8, 1861
2606 Robert E. Lee Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee I have been here dear Mary three days Coming from Monterey to Huntersville & thence here. We are on the dividing ridge. Looking north down the Tygart’s river valley, whose waters flow into the... Aug. 9, 1861
2607 Henry A. Wise Robert E. Lee General: Yours, dated the 5th at Huntersville, post-marked the 8th at Staunton, is just received. I am pressing every means to advance as far as will meet the enemy on the Gauley turnpike and... Aug. 10, 1861
2608 Robert E. Lee Henry A. Wise General: I have just received your letter of the 10th and 11th instant, and I am glad that you are enabled to re-enforce General Floyd so promptly. Your reasons for our troops not advancing to... Aug. 12, 1861
2609 P.B. Bird His Aunt Your kind letter of the 10th has come safe to hand, and now I take this chance to answer it and I hope it will find you all enjoying good health. I am sorry that I can’t say the same for our Regt,... Aug. 18, 1861
2610 Robert E. Lee Alfred Beckley I have just recd. your letter of the 21st inst and regret to learn that the four companies of Vols: in the county of Mercer declined being mustered into the service. The two comps of Cav’ry named... Aug. 24, 1861
2611 Robert E. Lee Alfred Beckley I have just recd. your letter of the 21st inst and regret to learn that the four companies of Vols: in the county of Mercer declined being mustered into the service. The two comps of Cav’ry named... Aug. 24, 1861
2612 Robert E. Lee Eleanor Agnes Lee, Anne Carter Lee I have just recd your letters of the 24th & am rejoiced to hear that you are well & enjoying the compy of friends. You did not mention whether you had recd a letter from me, written before... Aug. 29, 1861
2613 Robert E. Lee Henry A. Wise General: I have just received and read with much interest your report of the 28th instant. The troops under your command deserve great commendation for the alacrity and cheerfulness they exhibited... Aug. 31, 1861
2614 Robert E. Lee Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee I have recd dearest Mary your letter of 18th Aug: from Audley & am very glad to get news of your whereabouts. I wrote to you not long since & have but little to add to what I then related.... Sep. 1, 1861
2615 Robert E. Lee John Floyd I am directed by Gen Lee to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 1st inst concerning the transfer of Private King of Capt: Wood’s comp’ny of the 37th Va Reg’t to Co: “E” of the 50th... Sep. 7, 1861
2616 Robert E. Lee Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee I recd last night dearest Mary your letter of 30 Aug: forwed by Custis. I hope from the tone of your letter that you feel better & wish I Could see you & be with you. I trust we may meet... Sep. 9, 1861
2617 Robert E. Lee Samuel Cooper General: It has been reported to me that the supplies of provisions for the Army of the Northwest are being exhausted at the depots at Staunton and Millborough, and that no notice has been received... Sep. 10, 1861
2618 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee - I cannot express to you my dear girls my disappointment at not meeting you[,] as one great inducement to my coming here was that hope. It is so late in the season now it would scarcely be worth... Sep. 12, 1861
2619 Robert E. Lee Edward C. Turner I have the most melancholy tidings to communicate. Our friend Col. John A. Washington yesterday met his death by the fire from the enemy's picket. He accompanied my son Fitshugh on a... Sep. 14, 1861
2620 Robert E. Lee Edward C. Turner I have the most melancholy tidings to communicate. Our friend Col John A. Washington yesterday met his death by the fire from the enemy’s picket. He accompanied my son Fitzhugh on a reconnoitering... Sep. 14, 1861
2621 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee I could not write to you by the first mail that went out after my arrival here because I had only time to send a letter to your papa I have been very glad that I did not bring you along for several... Sep. 15, 1861
2622 Robert E. Lee Louisa Fontaine Washington Chew With a heart filled with grief I have to communicate the saddest tidings you have ever heard.May ‘Our Father who is in Heaven’ enable you to bear it, for in His inscrutable providence, abounding in... Sep. 16, 1861
2623 Robert E. Lee Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee I recd dear Mary your letter of the 5th by Beverly T[urner].1 who is a nice young soldier. I am pained to see fine young men like him, of education & standing from all the old & respectable... Sep. 17, 1861
2624 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee I hope tomorrow’s mail may bring me a letter from you my dear child you gave me such a little tiny one & did not tell me of any one at Kinloch tho I suppose you did not allow yourself room on... Sep. 21, 1861
2625 Robert E. Lee Henry A. Wise I have just arrived at this camp, and regret to find the forces not united. I know nothing of the relative advantages of the points occupied by yourself and General Floyd, but as far as I can judge... Sep. 21, 1861
2626 Robert E. Lee Henry A. Wise Sir: I have just received your dispatch of this date, saying that the enemy has occupied Sewell Mountain in full force. It is difficult, without knowing more of the facts in the case, to suggest... Sep. 23, 1861
2627 Robert E. Lee Henry A. Wise General: Your dispatch of the 23d is just received. I am glad to hear that the force of the enemy in your front does not exceed 3,000. No information that is reliable has been received at this camp... Sep. 24, 1861
2628 Henry A. Wise Robert E. Lee General: By your aide (under the approach and fire of the enemy, at a stand, made under my orders, where the struggle will be severe, whatever be the result) I received the within order from the... Sep. 25, 1861
2629 Robert E. Lee John B. Floyd GenlSince writing the all impt note I have thought, that should you not have heard of any movements of the enemy rendering the withdrawal of the troops from this place necessary, & could send... Sep. 25, 1861
2630 Robert E. Lee Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee I have just recd dear Mary your letters of the 17th & 19th Inst: with one from Robert of the former date. I have but little time for writing tonight, & will therefore write to you. I infer... Sep. 26, 1861
2631 Robert E. Lee John B. Floyd GenlBy direction of Gen Lee I enclose a list of “absentees without leave” from Col. Tompkins, 22nd Va: regt; the Colonel supposes these men have ret’d to your camp & you are requested to cause... Sep. 28, 1861
2632 Robert E. Lee John B. Floyd GenlGen Lee directs me to say that the accompanying dispatches were forwarded to your camp this morning by the usual road (turnpike); that the messenger ret’d saying it was impossible to get to... Sep. 28, 1861
2633 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee I feel so anxious on your subject that if I had not promised Charlotte to go & stay with her till the girls returned I would go up to Kinlock to get you ready for school there is but little I... Oct. 1, 1861
2634 Robert E. Lee John B. Floyd I am directed by Gen Lee to request you to furnish him with the information concerning the salt which you were kind enough to procure for him, & which is at Lewisburg. He wishes to make... Oct. 10, 1861
2635 Robert E. Lee William J. Clarke Please send me a report of all the Sick of Genl Floyds brigade left in this camp. I have ordered all the regimental wagons of the Wise Legion to carry the sick to the Blue Sulphur -Please let me... Oct. 11, 1861
2636 Robert E. Lee William J. Clarke Please send me a report of all the Sick of Genl Floyds brigade left in this camp. I have ordered all the regimental wagons of the Wise Legion to carry the sick to the Blue Sulphur -Please let me... Oct. 11, 1861
2637 Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Mildred Childe Lee I feel so anxious on your subject that if I had not promised Charlotte to go & stay with her till the girls returned I would go up to Kinlock to get you ready for school there is but little I... Oct. 11, 1861
2638 John Withers John B. Floyd XIII. To secure correctness in the Register of Officers serving in the Provisional Army of the Confed. States, to be sent in to Congress at its next meeting, commanders of all separate bodies of... Oct. 18, 1861
2639 Robert E. Lee John B. Floyd General: It has been reported to me tonight that General Rosecrans was sending a strong a detachment across New River to intercept you. I believe he is aware of yiu having crossed New River, but if... Oct. 20, 1861
2640 Robert E. Lee Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee I recd. last night your letter of the 2nd & would have ansd. it at once but was detained with the Secr till after 11 P.M. I fear now I may miss the mail. Saturday evg I tried to put down to you... Nov. 5, 1861
2641 Eleanor Agnes Lee Mildred Childe Lee Why you persist dear Mill in saying I never write I can’t imagine, I wonder if I did not write to you just before Ma went to the Hot (enclosed in one of hers) & no answer have I ever seen. Just... Nov. 10, 1861
2642 Robert E. Lee Mildred Childe Lee I have recd your letter forwarded to Richmond by Mr Powell & I also got while in the West the letter sent by Bev Turner. I Can write but seldom but your letters always give me great pleasure. I... Nov. 15, 1861
2643 Robert E. Lee Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee This is the first moment I have had to write to you & now am waiting the call to breakfast, on my way to Brunswick, Fernandina &c. This is my second visit to Savannah night before last I... Nov. 18, 1861
2644 Robert E. Lee Anne Carter Lee, Eleanor Agnes Lee I have recd your joint letter of the 24th Oct: from Clydale. It was very cheering to me & the affection & sympathy you expressed were very grateful to my feelings. I wish indeed I could see... Nov. 22, 1861
2645 Robert E. Lee Annie, Agnes Lee I have recd your joint letter of the 24th Oct: from Clydale.[1] It was very cheering to me & the affection & sympathy you expressed were very grateful to my feelings. I wish indeed I could... Nov. 22, 1861
2646 Robert E. Lee Jefferson Davis My absence on an examination of the coast of South Carolina and Georgia has prevented until now my reply to your note of the 4th instant, asking hat communication was made by General Beauregard to... Nov. 24, 1861
2647 Robert E. Lee, Jr. Anne Carter Lee It really is an age since I have heard from any of my sisters especially you. I think it is a shame that, with four unmarried sisters, I am not able to get a letter from any of them. Pa, though he... Dec. 1, 1861
2648 Robert E. Lee Richard Caldwell On my return here yesterday I found the package of bedding mentioned in your letter of the 27th ulto: & beg through you to express my thanks to the ladies of the S. R. Association for their... Dec. 4, 1861
2649 Robert E. Lee Anne Carter Lee I have taken the only quiet time I have been able to find on this holy day to thank you for your letter of the 29th Ulto. One of the miseries of war is that there is no sabbath & the current of... Dec. 8, 1861
2650 Robert H. Chilton Walter H. Taylor The Secretary of War is of opinion that you are only entitled to pay from the Confederate Government, from the time that you were appointed in its Army – and only then as First Lieutenant; with the... Dec. 10, 1861