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- GLC#
- GLC03717
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- April 1, 1861
- Author/Creator
- Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870
- Title
- to Edward D. Townsend re: reports for duty before being offered command of army
- Place Written
- Arlington, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 24.3 cm, Width: 18.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Written as Colonel in the 1st Cavalry. Lee was informally offered command of all US armies but refused in order to defend Virginia. He resigned on the 20th (that document is reproduced in Freeman's biography of Lee).
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