Longstreet, James (1821-1904) to Daniel Harvey Hill
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04545.02 Author/Creator: Longstreet, James (1821-1904) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 18 October 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 25.3 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
General Longstreet writes, "Your note of today is received. I am surprised and grieved to learn that you have been relieved from duty with this Army. We have stood side by side in so many severely contested battlefields that I have learned to lean upon you with great confidence... I am yet full of faith that a kind and infinitely merciful Providence will not abandon us. And that we shall, after all, be successful."
After the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863, Hill criticized General Braxton Bragg; when the Army of Tennessee was reorganized, Hill was left without a command. Longstreet, also critical of Bragg, was dispatched to Eastern Tennessee.
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