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to Joseph E. Johnston re: commencing Shenandoah Valley Campaign

"The other troops will leave for their respective destinations via the railroad, except those directed to procede to Manassa, they will march via Snicker's Gap."

GLC07170

to unknown re: spirit of soldiers after first Bull Run

Addressed to "My dear Sir." "The most gratifying fact connected with the recent action is the evidence it furnishes of the superiority of our troops over those of our troops over those of our Northern Army . . . this superiority is the difference...

GLC07174

to Jefferson Davis

"There are many thousand men improperly absent from this army. I have caused to-day an appeal to be made to them to return at once to duty. I do not know whether it will have much affect, unless accompanied by the Declaration of Amnesty." (In...

GLC07176

General Orders no. 83 re: day of fasting and prayer

After Gettysburg: "Soldiers! we have sinned against Almighty God . . . we have not remembered that the defenders of a just cause should be pure in his eyes--that our lives are in his hand, and we have relied too much on our own arms for the...

GLC07177

to James Monroe [?] re: recovery of his slaves and request for claims from war

War of 1812-related. Butler asks Madison's opinion on recovery of "property in Negroes" in the first article of a treaty. He estimates his loss of slaves "causes a reduction of Income, yearly, of Sixteen Thousand Dollrs." Remants of tape adhesive...

GLC07185