Headquarters papers, 1850-1876 (bulk 1862-1865).

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Headquarters papers, 1850-1876 (bulk 1862-1865).

The Robert Edward Lee Headquarters papers, 1850-1876, consist primarily of orders, circulars, telegrams and correspondence concerning the operations of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 to 1865. Official reports in the collection cover the Maryland Campaign of 1862, the battles of Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, the siege of Petersburg, and the Appomattox Campaign. Also included are postwar writings, reminiscences, biographical information, private writings of Lee, and newspaper clippings. Correspondents include James Longstreet (1821- 1904), Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-1893), Osmun Latrobe (1835- 1915), Walter Herron Taylor (1838-1916), and other Confederate officers.

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Virginia Historical Society Library

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Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

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P.G.T. Beauregard was a Confederate States Army general from New Orleans, Louisiana. The Aztec Club was organized in 1847 as a fraternal society for officers serving under General Winfield Scott's command in Mexico City. Several officers later became major Civil War leaders. From the description of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard letter, 1892 Dec. 29. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 70294149 Former Confederate general and resident of New Orleans. At the t...

Longstreet, James, 1821-1904

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U.S. railroad commissioner, army officer, and diplomat. From the description of James Longstreet papers, 1858-circa 1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980713 James Longstreet, military man, businessman, diplomat, and railway commissioner, was born 8 January 1821, in Edgefield District, South Carolina, and died 2 January 1904, in Gainesville, Georgia. He was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (1842) and served in the Mexican War before he resigned from the U.S. Army ...

Latrobe, Osmun, 1835-1915.

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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 ...

Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia

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The Army of Northern Virginia was the primary military force of the Confederate States of America's Eastern Theater. Organized on June 20, 1861, as the Army of the Potomac, it soon incorporated the armies of the Shenandoah, Harpers Ferry, and the Northwest. The army's name changed to Army of Northern Virginia on March 14, 1862. It surrendered to the Northern Army of the Potomac at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. From the description of Confederate States of America, Army of ...

Taylor, Walter Herron, 1838-1916

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Confederate army officer and banker of Norfolk, Va. From the description of Walter Herron Taylor correspondence, 1864 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980575 Col. Walter Heron Taylor (1838-1916) from Norfolk, Virginia, wrote several books about Robert E. Lee (1807-1870). From the description of Col. Walter H. Taylor papers, 1810-1916 [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122539267 ...