Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893 to Daniel Harvey Hill

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GLC#
GLC03013
Type
Letters
Date
May 21, 1864
Author/Creator
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893
Title
to Daniel Harvey Hill
Place Written
Virginia
Pagination
3 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 25.2 cm
Language
English
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Clerical copy of a letter by Beauregard, with Beauregard's signature attesting that it is a "true copy." Beauregard informs Hill that President Davis refuses to assign him to command until Hill makes "the application for orders in the field", which he has already refused to do (see GLC00864-Beauregard's request to have Hill transferred, with Bragg's and Cooper's responses). Also relates that General Bushrod Rust Johnson has been promoted to command the Second Division and General Robert Frederick Hike will command the First Division. Writes "It is useless, I hope, for me to say how I regret loosing your Services in command at this juncture, but I hope you will continue to lend them to me as a vol-aid. I will entrust you with the charge of visiting daily the lines to see that evry officer is at his post & everything in its place..." Mentions Colonel Harris. Beauregard endorses the letter as "a true copy." Written at Hancock's House. See GLC00864 for a related document.

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