ALS, 1853 December 22 : West Point, to Gen. Geo. H. Devereux.

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ALS, 1853 December 22 : West Point, to Gen. Geo. H. Devereux.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18475217

This is a very sympathetic letter about the misbehavior of General Devereux's son. Lee says he is reluctant to make this report but he is doing so " ... on the principle which I prefer in my own case, to know the worst that I may have the opportunity of doing what I can to remedy it ..."

1- 1/2 p. ; 25 x 20 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Devereux, George H.

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Adjutant general of the Massachusetts militia; resident of Boston. From the description of Papers, 1849-1852; (bulk 1852). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19405873 ...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...