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The following correspondence went the rounds of the press several months ago, but it should by all means be put in more permanent form:

Scribner's Monthly for February has an article entitled "A Piece of Secret History," by Colonel Charles J. Jones, Jr., of the late Confederate army, containing the following letter from General Robert E. Lee, written about a month after the disaster of Gettysburg, and offering to resign his command: