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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Official reports of the battle of Gettysburg . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Evacuation of Richmond . (search)
Evacuation of Richmond.
Report of General R. S. Ewell.
Spring Hill, Tenn., December 20th, 1865. General R. E. Lee, Lexington, Va.:
General,—About the middle of February last I received a communication from you, enclosing a law which I was directed to carry out. This law required preparations to be made for destroying the cotton, tobacco, &c., which the owners could not remove, in places exposed to capture by the enemy.
I immediately sent Major Brown, of my staff, to Mayor Mayo with the document, and requested him to call a meeting of the Common Council to give their opinion as to the measures proper to be taken.
After a free discussion with some of the Council and by their advice, I issued a circular to the merchants and owners of cotton and tobacco, embodying the substance of your order and the law that accompanied it. This I entrusted to those gentlemen and to Major Isaac N. Carrington, Provost-Marshal, for distribution.
Being informed a few hours later that it was
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Reunion of the Virginia division Army of Northern Virginia Association. (search)