CIVIL WAR]. LEE, ROBERT E., 1808-1870, C.S.A. General . Autograph letter signed ("RE Lee") as General, to Adjutant & Inspector General Samuel Cooper "H[ea]dq[ua]r[ter]s" [Fredericksburg, Va.], 26 March 1863. 1 page, oblong, 155 x 198 mm. (6 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.), puncture and tear at center repaired, affecting two letters of text . LEE REPORTS TO RICHMOND ON MOSBY'S PARTIZAN RANGERS' SUCCESSES AT CHANTILLY A brief military report, exceptional for its mention of John Singleton Mosby, written while Lee's and the army of Northern Virginia waited on the heights of Fredericksburg for an expected spring Union offensive: "On the 25th Inst[ant] Capt[ain J[oh]s S. Mosby attacked captured a body of the enemy...on the Little river turnpike near Chantilly. He reports ten killed & wounded...& thirty five men with their horses, arms & equipment captured. He sustained no loss..." Apparently unpublished, not in The Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee , ed. C. Dowdey and L. Manarin, 1961. John Singleton Mosby, commander of the Partizan Rangers, a group designated by the Confederacy to wage guerilla warfare in Northern Virginia, had only recently attained notariety by his capture of Union Brigadier General Edwin H. Stoughton, while Stoughton slept in his bed near Fairfax Court House (legend has it that Mosby "...uncovered the sleeping general and [woke him by] slapping him on the behind..." (Boatner, p. 571).
CIVIL WAR]. LEE, ROBERT E., 1808-1870, C.S.A. General . Autograph letter signed ("RE Lee") as General, to Adjutant & Inspector General Samuel Cooper "H[ea]dq[ua]r[ter]s" [Fredericksburg, Va.], 26 March 1863. 1 page, oblong, 155 x 198 mm. (6 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.), puncture and tear at center repaired, affecting two letters of text . LEE REPORTS TO RICHMOND ON MOSBY'S PARTIZAN RANGERS' SUCCESSES AT CHANTILLY A brief military report, exceptional for its mention of John Singleton Mosby, written while Lee's and the army of Northern Virginia waited on the heights of Fredericksburg for an expected spring Union offensive: "On the 25th Inst[ant] Capt[ain J[oh]s S. Mosby attacked captured a body of the enemy...on the Little river turnpike near Chantilly. He reports ten killed & wounded...& thirty five men with their horses, arms & equipment captured. He sustained no loss..." Apparently unpublished, not in The Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee , ed. C. Dowdey and L. Manarin, 1961. John Singleton Mosby, commander of the Partizan Rangers, a group designated by the Confederacy to wage guerilla warfare in Northern Virginia, had only recently attained notariety by his capture of Union Brigadier General Edwin H. Stoughton, while Stoughton slept in his bed near Fairfax Court House (legend has it that Mosby "...uncovered the sleeping general and [woke him by] slapping him on the behind..." (Boatner, p. 571).
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