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" Camp Orange Courthouse, January i6, 1864.


 * ^Lieutenant' General J, Longstreet :

if.if.i^:)f.if.i(iif.i^:)f.i(i tt Yqu know how exhausted the country is between here and the Potomac ; there is nothing for man or horse/*

" Headquarters Army, January 18, 1864.


 * ^ Brigadier- General A, R, Lawton^ Quartermaster- General:

" General, — The want of shoes and blankets in this army continues to cause much suffering and to impair its efficiency. In one regi- ment I am informed that there are only fifty men with serviceable shoes, and a brigade that recently went on picket was compelled to leave several hundred men in camp who were unable to bear the exposure of duty, being destitute of shoes and blankets."


 * ' Headquarters, January 20, 1864.

^^His Excellency y Jefferson Davis :

frostbitten, some badly ; many injured by the falling of their horses.*'
 * ** Nearly all of his'* (Fitz Lee*s) **men were


 * Headquarters, April 16, 1864.
 * General Braxton Bragg :

of the army, and the season has arrived when I may be attacked any day. The scarcity of our supplies gives me the greatest uneasi- ness.**
 * * * * * ** I cannot even draw to me the cavalry or artillery

" Headquarters, April 12, 1864.

army is so great that I cannot refrain from expressing it to your Excellency. I connot see how we can operate with our present sup-
 * Mr. President, — My anxiety on the subject of provisions for this