Item Description: Letter dated 15 1864 from Lieutenant General Alexander P. Stewart serving for the Confederate army. He writes about the positioning of his lines.

Item Citation: Folder 3, Stephen D. Lee Papers, #02440, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Item Transcription:

Headquarters Stewarts’ Corps

Dec. 15 1864

General:

I have to acknowledge receipt of your note of yesterday. My new line is now tenable, and I am only occupying the old one as a skirmish line- a line of videttes in front of it. The few pieces of artillery on the old line have been withdrawn.

Would you not like to get a chance “to make the fight” on either line? I think the men have very great confidence, now, in a line of rifle pits.

Very Respectfully,

Your Obedient Servant,

Alex P. Stewart

Lieut. Genl