<br /> Lee Letter: g076

Sender: Robert E. Lee
Recipient: Jefferson Davis

Received at Richmond Feby. 7 1864. By Telegraph from Orange C.H. 7

To His Ex. Jeffn. Davis

As far as could be ascertained at five A. M. this morning the Enemy had retired to the north side of the Rapidan at Morton’s Ford.

R. E. Lee Genl.

[Endorsed] 26/208 V Telegram Genl. R. E. Lee Orange C. H. Feby. 7 1864.

Notes:

W. J. De Renne CollectionWormsloe, Chatham County, Georgia (1914)

Printed in Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee’s Dispatches, Dispatch No. 76.