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4401 Robert E. Lee Jefferson Davis In my letter of this PM recommending certain promotions, I entirely omitted the names of Maj Gen R[ichard] H Anderson & Brig Gen Mahone. The former has been coinmandg Longstreet's Corps,... -
4402 Robert E. Lee Jefferson Davis I am very much obliged to you for the perusal of the letters from Mr. Mason & Genl. Williams. I hope that the favourable anticipations of the former may be realized. As far as I have been able... -
4403 Robert E. Lee Jefferson Davis I have had the honour to receive your despatch of today. Unless Butler is promoted no one can be promoted to his Brigade - I believe Dunovatit gives the fairest promise among the S.C. Colonels... -
4404 Robert E. Lee Jefferson Davis I recd to night your letter of the 3rd Inst: giving Copies of three telegrams from Genl Beauregard at Augusta & your reply. I do not think it possible to send more reinforcements from here... -
4405 Robert E. Lee Jefferson Davis I recd today the letter from Genl Longstreet to which you referred in your note of the 28th Ulto - I have proposed to Genl Grant an interview, in the hope that some good may result, but I must... -
4406 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten Cadet Rudd of the 4th Class requests permission to receive some articles under clothing from his home which is recommended for favorable considerationSigned/ R. E. Lee Bvt: Col:Supt: Mil: Acady. -
4407 Robert E. Lee Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte I should have sooner acknowledged, My dear Mr Bonaparte, your letter of the 27 Ulto, but have been obliged to save my eyes for the service they had to perform that was indespensable. I have not how... -
4408 Robert E. Lee R. Swan Your application for a sick leave for your son, Cadet S. Stanhope Swan, has been referred to the Surgeon of the post; who is of opinion, that it is not a case in which he can recommend a leave of... -
4409 Robert E. Lee Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte By the first mail after the reception of your letter of the 31st Ulto. I wrote to Genl Smith at Phila. according to your desire: & have delayed replying to you, in the hope of recg from him an... -
4410 Robert E. Lee Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte I recd by Casy the large Military map of Europe; & found the spare sheets previously mentioned formed a part of it, & added a broad strip of Country to the East & South. I have caused... -
4411 Robert E. Lee R. S. Smith You will proceed to the city of New York for the purpose of procuring specie for a Treasury draft upon completion of which business you will return to this post.Signed ref R. E. LeeBvt: Col: Supt:... -
4412 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten I have the honor to inclose Copies of Certificates from the Surgeon of the post in the cases of Cadets H. T. Latham & R. E. Wood (accompanied by certificates from Drs. Wood & Norris &... -
4413 Robert E. Lee R. S. Smith You will proceed to the City of New York for the purpose of procuring specie for a Treasury draft. Upon completion of which business you will return to the post.Signed/ R. E. Lee Br. Col.Supt.... -
4414 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten I have the honor to transmit, herewith, an estimate of funds required for the US Mil: Acady. for the fiscal year ending 30 June 1854.An addition of $2000. to the usual estimate for repairs &... -
4415 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten I have the honor to report for your information that Cadet R H Lee, whose absence without leave was reported to you on the 8th inst: returned to the Post on the 14th Inst in company with his... -
4416 Robert E. Lee Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte Upon the reception of Mrs Bonaparte’s letter with your postscript; I despatched a letter to Capt. Brewerton; asking if necessity did not require it, & it could be done, with justice to Jerome... -
4417 Robert E. Lee Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte I am too sorry that your kind intentions of visiting us at the Point should have been frustrated just on the point of execution. I should have been particularly glad to have seen you, & I want... -
4418 Robert E. Lee Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte I was much gratified at the reception of your letter from Paris, & should have acknowledged it at once; but there was not time for my answer to reach you before the day appointed for your... -
4419 Robert E. Lee Joseph R. Curtis Being desirous of closing the account of expenses of the late Board of Visiters to this Institution, of which you were a member; I beg leave to ask from what point your traveling allowance is to be... -
4420 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten Sir. On the night of the 5th inst:, about 10. P.M. Cadet R. H. Lee left his quarters in Barrack without permission, & has not since returned. I have advised his father of the circumstances,... -
4421 Robert E. Lee Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte I have just recd & read a review of the “Memoir on the U.S. Arty.” The memoir itself I have not seen, but I think you will be able to get at its spirit it not its merits from the pages of the... -
4422 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten I have the honor to enclose, herewith, a copy of a letter recd. direct from the Secy. of War & my acknowledgement of the same, & to ask that the letter be submitted to him.I am very respy.... -
4423 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten It is desired to increase the supply of water to the public buildings at the Mil. Academy W.P. No other stream is available for this purpose but Buttermilk Falls brook. From the accompg. sketch of... -
4424 Robert E. Lee Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte I have just recd your letter of the 17th Inst. & lay aside my writing to answer it. I am very glad of the step you have taken in reference to Jerome. I was on the point of sending you a note by... -
4425 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten I enclose for your information a copy of a letter I have received from the U.S. Dis. Attorney, for the Southern District of N.Y: in reference to the proposed diversion of water from the Butter Milk... -
4426 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten I forward today the resignation of Cadet R. H. Lee. His father having come on for the purpose of taking him home, & thinking it very desirable, in his situation, that he should accompany him. I... -
4427 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten The following cadets request permission to receive the articles set opposite their names respectively, which have been sent to the Office of the Quarter Master of the post—viz.Cadet Campbell F. L.... -
4428 Robert E. Lee Archibald Gracie I have recd. your application for a leave of absence for your son. & in consideration of the state of Mrs. Gracie’s health, have concluded to comply with your request. I could not with... -
4429 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten Cadets Sharp & Venables request permission to receive articles of under clothing from their homes. Which is recommended for favorable consideration.I am Very respectfully Yr. obedt.... -
4430 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten In compliance with your instructions of the 1st Inst. I have to request that one of the following married officers be detailed for duty at the Mil: Academy in the Dept: of Cavalry Tactics:... -
4431 Robert E. Lee Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte I am very glad to hear that you & Jerome are about to embark for France. It will be as agreable to you as beneficial to him, & I think you can fairly take great pleasure in comparing him... -
4432 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten I have the honor to report, that in obedience to the instructions of the Secty of War, communicated in your letter of the 27th of May; I have this day relieved Captain Brewerton, of the... -
4433 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten The letter of the Secty. of War of the 23d ulto: in reference to the communication from the Academic Board in the cases of Cadets Stevens and Holbrook, dated the 6th July, having been laid before... -
4434 Robert E. Lee Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte I have just recd your note of the 11th & am highly gratified at the prospect of having a reduction of your bust—I shall value it very highly, & place it among the most esteemed objects in... -
4435 Robert E. Lee Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte My brother has a small package for his son Fitzhugh, which he is anxious he should get, as it contains some necessary clothing he inadvertently left behind. May I therefore ask the favour of you or... -
4436 Robert E. Lee Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte I have been expecting since the reception of your kind note of the 10— the visit you then led us to hope for. The Fall having passed into the Winter, & all the delights of our first permanent... -
4437 Robert E. Lee Richard Henry Lee It gives me great pain to inform you that your son Cadet Richd. H. Lee Jr. left his room last night about 10 P.M. with the intention, as avowed to his roommate, of leaving the Military Academy.... -
4438 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten Rodman M. Price has remitted a draft for Fifty dollars, which he requests may be placed in the credit of his nephew, Cadet Rodman Price Lewis—which is recommended for favorable consideration, he... -
4439 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten I have recd. your letter of the 15th inst: directing that the mileage of the member of the late Board of Visiters, from California, be paid from the appropriation of the current year. I conclude... -
4440 Robert E. Lee William H. Terrill I have recd your letter of the 28th expressing your fears lest your son Wm. R. Terrill had been guilty of some gross impropriety, from the amount of demerit he incurred in the month of July. That... -
4441 Robert E. Lee J. R. Torbert I have recd. your letter of the 1st Inst: requesting that your son may be allowed permission to attend the Methodist Episcopal Church nearest the Point. There is no objection to your son’s being... -
4442 Robert E. Lee Joseph G. Totten Cadet Rodman P. Lewis, whose departure from the Point on the 5th Inst: I reported to you yesterday, has this morning returned. He states that feeling discouraged at his progress & standing in... -
4443 Robert E. Lee W. D. Frazer The term of service of the person formally employed as Lithographer has expired, & the Academy is now without one. I have thought you might aid in procuring another. A man of common aptitude,... -
4444 Board of War Executive Committee Your Letter to the President of the Congress with the Inclosures came to hand at a time when Congress was adjourn'd for two days, and the President being ill of the Gout, the Board of War have... -
4445 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson The inclosed Gazette will shew you the progress, and perhaps the end for some time, of our negotiation with the British Commissioners. They, with their whole Army have abandoned Philadelphia, and... -
4446 - - The Committee appointed to consider &c beg leave to make the following report.It appears to your Committee that Mr. Deane did engage in private Commerce at the time that he was employed in the... -
4447 - - Mr. Deane in various parts of his Narrative assumes the whole transaction with Baumarchais - Consider his duplicity by comparing his own letter on this business by Mr. Francois with his letters in... -
4448 Daniel Carroll Thomas Sim Lee Capn. Swan will deliver you the Camblet, Baze & Velvet for your great Coat. On receiving your Letter I applied at the House where Mr Buchanan lodg’d to know if he had left any cloth &c but... -
4449 Daniel Carroll Thomas Sim Lee Mr. Mullahan will deliver 3 prs. of Shoes for Mrs. Digges, and two pair of Slippers for Mrs Rogers. I take the liberty of requesting your care of them. He has given me a memorandum of some shoes... -
4450 Henry Lee James Madison By way of introduction of a correspondence, with a character I love & respect so sincerely, I enclose a report passed yesterday by Congress, the only material business done lately & which... -