Named Entity Results, Robert E. Lee

Interfering with Market men. --The country people attending the Richmond markets have preferred complaints to Gen. Winder, through Samuel Ellis, Clerk of the 1st Market, that they are much annoyed by soldiers stationed on the New way to market. Sons of lowed what they want; will take it, and if an objection is interposed damage ensues to the luckless wight who complains. Sometimes, to gain their point, the sportive soldiers will playfully remove a athwart the sconce with pistol o. gan silences all opposition. Gen. Winder told Mr. Ellis to apply at the headquarters of Gen. Lee for redress of the grievances complained of.

Gen'l Lee's construction of the Conscript law. Gen. Robert E. Lee having been applied to for his opinion respecting the construction of the Conscript law, replies that by its express terms it subjects all persons who may be over the age of eighteen years at the time of any call for troops made by the President, to service, andGen. Robert E. Lee having been applied to for his opinion respecting the construction of the Conscript law, replies that by its express terms it subjects all persons who may be over the age of eighteen years at the time of any call for troops made by the President, to service, and persons attaining that age, at once become subject to military duty. Although the law contains us express privation as to the discharge of persons in service upon their attaining the age of thirty-five years, Gen. Lee is of opinion that such persons will become entitled to their discharge upon reaching that age, and their places Although the law contains us express privation as to the discharge of persons in service upon their attaining the age of thirty-five years, Gen. Lee is of opinion that such persons will become entitled to their discharge upon reaching that age, and their places will be supplied by others between eighteen and thirty-five years.