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ROBERT E LEE (1807-70) Commander in Chief of the Confederate Armies. Lengthy AES, "R E Lee, Bvt C...
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Estimated At:6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD
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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2002 Jun 29 @ 08:00UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT
ROBERT E LEE (1807-70) Commander in Chief of the Confederate Armies. Lengthy AES, "R E Lee, Bvt Col", as Superintendent of U.S. Military Academy, West Point, April 12, 1853. In part, "...The detachment on duty at the Mil[itary] Acad[emy], have heretofore been allowed the ration of flour (18 oz) baked into bread. By the recent orders of the Adjt Genl, this practice has been stopped & only 18 oz of bread has been issued; the Surplus flour having been directed to be sold...The Art[illery] detachment (so called) is a daily working party...at the venal occupations of mechanics & laborers. The dragoon detachment...is on Constant duty & it is on account of these circumstances that they have been allowed hitherto the full allowance of flour. There is also I think some difference in the organization & duties of the men at this Post & others in the Service. One detachment is organized for hard & daily labor...The other for constant & specific duty...I according Concur in the recommendation of Major [George H] Thomas that they receive all the bread provided that the Bakery be in charge to the Post Fund..." Written on attached integral leaf of an ALS from future Union Major General GEORGE H THOMAS (1816-70), as instuctor of artillery at West Point, 2pp, April 9, 1853, 4to, to future Confederate General Samuel Cooper (1798-1876), Adjutant General of U.S., requesting larger supplies of bread for his troops. In small part, "...I have been importuned by all the men of the Detachments, on duty at this Post, to intercede for them in the matter of their allowance of bread. They all represent that the Regulation allowance of 18 ounces is not enough here, as they are engaged constantly, from daylight until dark, in hard labor. This I know to be true for the Artillery Detachment..." An interesting association between 3 future Civil War Generals, 2 from the South and 1 from the North. VG. $6,000-8,000
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folio Approximately 12” X 18”
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8vo Approximately 6” X 8”
12mo Smaller than 6” X 8”