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Concerns the Secession Convention held in Richmond. 3 pp. ALS.

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Notifies Gorgas of a telegraphed dispatch regarding captured muskets. 1 p. ALS.

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Reports that Col. [Nathan George] Evans engaged. most of the day yesterday in battle with the enemy, utilizing twelve regts. and five batteries, near the Potomac River; heavy casualties and 200 prisoners taken, as well as six field pieces. 1 p. ALS.

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List of killed, wounded, and missing in the battle of Ball's Bluff, [Va.], fought 21 Oct. 1861. 11 p. D.

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One letter written by General Joseph Eggleston Johnston of the Confederate Army to fellow General P. G. T. Beauregard, replying to the latter's proposed troop movement. The letter is dated January 14, 1862, and is sent from the Northern Virginia headquarters of the Confederate Army. A transcript of the letter and biographical information on General Johnston in also included.

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1 p. ALS. Urges keeping the York River open to gunboats [two days prior to the Battle of Williamsburg]; Hill not to command his rear guard and to continue the fire after midnight; adds postscript "I would like to have the vessels sunk."

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Map. 1 item.

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Agrees to send Capt. Mason and Lt. Col. Harvey to him as soon as possible; is pleased that he is "again able to take the field." 1 p. ALS.

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1 p. DS.

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Acknowledges receipt of Dick's letter to Col. W. Hoffman, Comissary General of Prisoners, Washington, [D.C.], 5 March 1863, regarding sending of 150 citizen prisoners for exchange. [with extensive endorsements]. 4 pp. Cy of DS.

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Lists 14 men and 11 women. 1 p. Cy of DC. Including Cy of D from F. A. Dick, Lt. Col. Prov[ost] Mar[shall] Gen[eral], 12 May 1863, listing 14 family members to be passed through the lines with their husbands and fathers. 1 p.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers of Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A. General during the American Civil War, including correspondence which reflect his long military career and interest in his nephews, John Warfield Johnston and John Preston Johnston. The papers include a diary, 1857, of Johnston's survey of the southern boundary of Kansas and eighteen volumes of Civil War dispatches and telegrams. The collection also includes a diary, 1 May-31 July 1864, of Thomas B. Mackall; letters received by...

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Sends message urging JEJ to report about the fall of Vicksburg at the Court of Enquiry at Montgomery, [Ala.]. 1 p. ALS.

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1 p. PD.

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1 p. PD.

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Discussion of the transfer of Major Barton from Gen[era]l Pol's command to his, and the misuse of Army funds; strategic discussion of upcoming battle in March, the deterioration of their horses, and [U.S.] Grant taking advantage of Longstreet's poor artillery and driving him back into Va.; reminds him to secure all his papers at home as "they will be very important to me after the war"; description of transfer of family silver through Nicati [sic] [Nicketti Floyd Johnston?]. 2 pp. ALS.

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Regrets losing him because of government orders; had high expectations for his help and from his expedition. 1 p. ALS.

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"Report of Gen[era]l Hood." 1 p. Incomplete.

Scope and Contents Gen[era]l Cobb is to address the people tonight; gives opinion of how to regroup and states that "you [JEJ] alone can bring back the old soldiers to their colors or engage other to join"; describes feeling of bitterness for Mr. [Jefferson] Davis, and that his supporters say "he had proved himself utterly incapable of conducting the war"; talk of Lee's popularity waning also if he "doesn't at once, show independence and pursue a course at least masked by being widely different from Mr....

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Concerning statistics of men and supplies; and prefers to have a commader other than Gen. Bragg for he "has made me a scapegoat." 2 pp. ALS.

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1 p. DS.

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Table of the Return of the Effective Strength of the Army of Tennessee, listing numbers in Lee's Corps, Total Infantry, and Kanapanx's Battery. 1 p. DS.

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Discusses President Lincoln's assassination in relation to the South's strength in the Civil War. 3 pp. ALS.

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