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Lee, Sydney Smith, 1802-1869 to Charles Carter Lee

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09255 Author/Creator: Lee, Sydney Smith, 1802-1869 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: circa 1860s Pagination: 4 p. : Order a Copy

To his brother, Charles Carter Lee, giving news of his son Fitzhugh Lee's serious wound at the Third Battle of Winchester on 9/19/1864. "My dear Fitz was slightly wounded in the fight near 'Winchester,' Fitz has been sick for 11 days and was not well when he went into the fight… had two horses shot under him.... His poor Nelly Gray was wounded so bad he had to abandon her-… He had her in the first Manassas fight.… But alas-she has gone.… My dear boy wrote to me after he was wounded and said he had done his best....the ball that struck him went through a thigh and through the saddle and killed the horse. So much for the fight in the valley."

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