Robert E. Lee Papers
Inventory (#422-z)


Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary Including Abstract
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Terms
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Items Separated
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
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Processed by:
Tim Pyatt
Date Completed:
Revised December 1998
Encoded by:
Tim Pyatt
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Descriptive Summary Including Abstract

Title
Robert E. Lee Papers (#422-z)1847; 1862-1869
Creator
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870.
Extent
27 items.
Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Abstract
Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the Confederate Army and military advisor to Jefferson Davis, 1861-1862; commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1862-1865; general in chief of all Confederate armies, 1865; president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), 1865-1870.
The collection includes two original letters from Robert E. Lee, one, 10 April 1866, to Perrin Busbee about the latter's appointment to West Point, and one, 16 November 1863, to R. H. Graves, about locating the remains of Captain H. A. Gordon at Gettysburg; miscellaneous copies of items by Lee, including a copy of a letter, 4 May 1863, from Lee to Stonewall Jackson; newspaper clippings about Lee; and an 1847 detailed pen-and-ink drawing of routes from Mexico City to Zacaticas, Mexico, complied by Lee as captain in the United States Army Corps of Engineers during the War with Mexico, 1845-1848.
Language
English.


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Administrative Information

Access
This collection has restrictions to access. Please see details below or contact the Manuscripts Department for more information.
Usage Restrictions
Photocopies have been substituted for original Robert E. Lee letters. Originals may be viewed upon request.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Provenance
Received from various sources, including Mrs. Emanuel Wallenstein of Richmond, Va., December 1948; Mrs. R. H. Graves, 1897 (transferred from the North Carolina Collection); Frank P. Graham of Chapel Hill, N.C., August 1935; and transfer from the James King Hall Papers (#1563).
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Online Catalog Terms

Busbee, Perrin, fl. 1866.
Confederate States of America. Army--Officers.
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
Gettysburg (Pa.)--History--19th century.
Gordon, H. A., d. 1863.
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863.
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870.
Maps, Manuscript.
Mexican War, 1846-1848--Maps.
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers--History--19th century.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life.
United States Military Academy--Students--History--19th century.
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Biographical Note

Robert E. Lee, United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the Confederate Army and military advisor to Jefferson Davis, 1861-1862; commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1862-1865; general in chief of all Confederate armies, 1865; president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), 1865-1870.

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Collection Overview

The collection includes two original letters from Robert E. Lee, one, 10 April 1866, to Perrin Busbee about the latter's appointment to West Point, and one, 16 November 1863, to R. H. Graves, about locating the remains of Captain H. A. Gordon at Gettysburg; miscellaneous copies of items by Lee, including a copy of a letter, 4 May 1863, from Lee to Stonewall Jackson; newspaper clippings about Lee; and an 1847 detailed pen-and-ink drawing of routes from Mexico City to Zacaticas, Mexico, complied by Lee as captain in the United States Army Corps of Engineers during the War with Mexico, 1845-1848.

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Items Separated

Items separated include a souvenir copy of Lee's farewell address of 10 April 1865 (P-422/1) and an 1847 detailed pen-and-ink drawing of routes from Mexico City to Zacaticas, Mexico, compiled by Lee as captain in the United States Army Corps of Engineers (OP-422/1), formerly filed as OP-2940.

Description

Papers, 1847, 1862-1869.

27 items.
Original, transcribed, and copied documents by and about Robert E. Lee
folder 1 contains a photostatic copy of a 16 May 1862 letter to Maria Sims of Clover Depot, Halifax County, Va.; a transcript of a 4 May 1863 letter from Lee to Stonewall Jackson expressing regret over Jackson's wounds; a 26 Nov. 1863 letter from Lee to R. H. Graves in response to an inquiry as to the possibility of locating the remains of Captain H. A. Gordon, who was killed at Gettysburg; a facsimile copy of Lee's General Order No. 9, 10 April 1865; a 10 April 1866 letter from Lee to Perrin Busbee concerning his appointment to West Point; and a photostatic copy of a letter from Lee to parents of a student at Washington College who was not keeping up with his classes.
folder 2 contains contemporary newspaper clippings about Lee. Items separated include a souvenir copy of Lee's farewell address, 10 April 1865, and an 1847 detailed pen-and-ink drawing of routes from Mexico City to Zacaticas, Mexico, compiled by Lee as captain in the United States Army Corps of Engineers during the War with Mexico, 1845-1848.
Folder 1
1862-1869
Folder 2
Clippings
Folder 1/P-422
Framed souvenir of 10 April 1865 farewell address
Folder 1/OP-422
Detailed pen-and-ink drawing of routes from Mexico City to Zacaticas, Mexico, 1847

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