LEE, ROBERT E., General, C.S.A. . Autograph letter signed ("R.E.Lee") TO GENERAL ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON, Richmond, Virginia, 26 March 1862. 1 full page, 4to, in dark ink on blue lined stationery (embossed stationer's device at top left corner: a paddle steamer and initials "P & S"), neatly matted with portraits of Lee and Johnston, framed. LEE TO ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON JUST BEFORE JOHNSTON'S DEATH AT SHILOH A prophetic letter, apparently unpublished, written by Lee in his capacity as military advisor to President Jefferson Davis. It is also apparently the last letter Lee addressed to Johnston before his untimely death at Shiloh on April 6. Lee had taken the demanding and difficult post of military advisor only recently (on March 6) and in that role replied to official and unofficial letters from the field commanders of the Confederate Army. Johnston had apparently complained of the difficulties the rebel armies in the west were experiencing, and of the potential threat of the imposing Union forces being assembled under U.S. Grant on the Tennessee River north of Corinth, Mississippi. Lee's tone is warmly sympathetic, reassuring and encouraging: "My Dear Genl., No one has sympathized with you in the troubles with which you are surrounded more sincerely than myself. I have watched your every movement & know the difficulties with which you have had to contend. I hope your cares will be diminished if not removed when you junction with the other lines of your Army has been completed, which must be accomplished by this time. My confidence in your judgement, skill & courage is so great that I do not apprehend a miscarriage where you are. I need not urge you when your Army is united to deal a blow at the enemy in your front if possible, before his rear gets up from Nashville. You have him divided now. Keep him so if you can. Wishing you my dear Genl. every success & happiness with my earnest prayers for the safety of your whole Army & that victory may attend your movements. I remain, truly & sincerely your friend..." Apparently unpublished, not in Lee, Wartime Papers, ed. Dowdey and Manarin. A.S. Johnston, a trusted friend of Davis from pre-war days, took command at Corinth of the Confederate Army of the Mississippi: four Corps (under Polk, Bragg, Hardee and Breckinridge) and planned a surprise attack on Grant's army, camped near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. In the valiant but disjointed attack, known as the Battle of Shiloh, Johnston was killed, and the following day Beauregard, now in command, withdrew. When Jefferson Davis received the news of Johnston's death, he wept, and vowed that "the cause could have spared a whole State better than that great soldier" (W.C. Davis, Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour , p.404).
LEE, ROBERT E., General, C.S.A. . Autograph letter signed ("R.E.Lee") TO GENERAL ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON, Richmond, Virginia, 26 March 1862. 1 full page, 4to, in dark ink on blue lined stationery (embossed stationer's device at top left corner: a paddle steamer and initials "P & S"), neatly matted with portraits of Lee and Johnston, framed. LEE TO ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON JUST BEFORE JOHNSTON'S DEATH AT SHILOH A prophetic letter, apparently unpublished, written by Lee in his capacity as military advisor to President Jefferson Davis. It is also apparently the last letter Lee addressed to Johnston before his untimely death at Shiloh on April 6. Lee had taken the demanding and difficult post of military advisor only recently (on March 6) and in that role replied to official and unofficial letters from the field commanders of the Confederate Army. Johnston had apparently complained of the difficulties the rebel armies in the west were experiencing, and of the potential threat of the imposing Union forces being assembled under U.S. Grant on the Tennessee River north of Corinth, Mississippi. Lee's tone is warmly sympathetic, reassuring and encouraging: "My Dear Genl., No one has sympathized with you in the troubles with which you are surrounded more sincerely than myself. I have watched your every movement & know the difficulties with which you have had to contend. I hope your cares will be diminished if not removed when you junction with the other lines of your Army has been completed, which must be accomplished by this time. My confidence in your judgement, skill & courage is so great that I do not apprehend a miscarriage where you are. I need not urge you when your Army is united to deal a blow at the enemy in your front if possible, before his rear gets up from Nashville. You have him divided now. Keep him so if you can. Wishing you my dear Genl. every success & happiness with my earnest prayers for the safety of your whole Army & that victory may attend your movements. I remain, truly & sincerely your friend..." Apparently unpublished, not in Lee, Wartime Papers, ed. Dowdey and Manarin. A.S. Johnston, a trusted friend of Davis from pre-war days, took command at Corinth of the Confederate Army of the Mississippi: four Corps (under Polk, Bragg, Hardee and Breckinridge) and planned a surprise attack on Grant's army, camped near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. In the valiant but disjointed attack, known as the Battle of Shiloh, Johnston was killed, and the following day Beauregard, now in command, withdrew. When Jefferson Davis received the news of Johnston's death, he wept, and vowed that "the cause could have spared a whole State better than that great soldier" (W.C. Davis, Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour , p.404).
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