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CHILTON, ROBERT H.

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CHILTON, ROBERT H.
(1816- 1879) Confederate brigadier general who was Lee's Chief of Staff. He signed the famous lost order of the Antietam campaign and led forces at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania. A great Gettysburg campaign-related war-date A.L.S. ""R. H. Chilton"" adding rank, Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, June 15, 1863, in full: ""Col. Gorgas chief of ordnance has sent forward a request that strict examination be made of interior of musket and rifle barrels, the complaint against cartridges being too large being mainly due he considers to foul barrels. In accordance with this wish, direct inspectors to look especially to this fact and report results of their observations, while hereafter they make inspections habitual"". Very good.