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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Literary notices. (search)
ish. But we think that even General Longstreet, had he done us the honor to read our introduction to the report (vol. II, pp. 33-34), would be compelled to admit the overwhelming proofs of the genuiness of this report. We have only space to repeat them very briefly : 1. The report was originally published in 1869--nearly two years before General Lee's death — by Mr. Wm. Swinton (author of the Army of the Potomac ) in the february number of the Historical Magazine, New York. 2. In April, 1869, General Lee told General Early that he had received the published copy of the report and that it was substantially correct. 3. Colonel Charles Marshall, General Lee's Military Secretary, stated that he had lent Mr. Swinton the original rough draft of the report from which a copy had been made for General Lee, and which was the same as that published in the Historical Magazine. 4. The copy from which we printed was a Ms. found among the papers of Michael Kelly, who was a clerk in Ge