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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

• Busbee, Perrin, fl. 1866.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers.
• Gettysburg (Pa.)--History--19th century.
• Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
• 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 Military Academy--Students--History--19th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life.
• United States. Army. Corps of Engineers--History--19th century.

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.

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.

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.