Lee Letter: g115




<br /> Lee Letter: g115

Washington and Lee University

Sender: Robert E. Lee
Recipient: Jefferson Davis

Received at Richd. May 31, 1864. By telegraph from Atlees Station 31

To Gen Braxton Bragg

O.K. 5 A.M. Best route for Hoke when arrived at Richmond is to march to Mechanicsville and halt there

R E Lee

[Endorsed] 16/320 F Atlees Station May 31, 1864. R E Lee, Genl. Reports best route for Hoke when he arrives in Richmond, is to march to Mechanicsville and halt there RB 988 Reed 31 May.

Notes:

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

Printed in Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee’s Dispatches, Dispatch No. 115.