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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1886. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. GENERAL R. E. LEE. COMMANDS. l86l. April 23.--Assumed command of military and naval forces of Virginia. May 7.--Ordered to assume command of all forces from other States tendering their services to Virginia. May 10.--Assigned command of Confederate States forces. May 14.--Appointed brigadier-general C. S. A. June 14.--General Confederate States Army. Aug. 3.--Commanding forces in Army of the North west. Oct. 20.--Same command. Nov. J.--Assigned command of Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. 1862. March Ij.--Assigned to duty at Richmond, and charged with military operations of armies of the Confederacy. June 1.--Assumed command of Army and Department of Northern Virginia, and kept it until close of the war. 1865. Jan. 31.--General-in-Chief Confederate States armies. Feb. 6.--Assigned command of all armies of the Confederate States. April 9.--Surrendered Army of Northern Virginia to General U. S. Grant, U. S. A. GENERAL R. E. LEE'S STAFF. Alexander, E. Porter, Lieutenant-colonel, Chief of Ordnance Nov., 1862, from June 1, 1862. Baldwin, Briscoe G., Lieutenant-colonel, Chief of Ordnance Nov., 1862, Sept., 1863, April 9, 1865. Brooke, John M., Lieutenant Virginia Navy, Acting A. D. C. May 4-8, 1861. CHILTON, R. H., Colonel, A. A. General June, 1862, July 31, Aug. 31, 1863; Brigadier-general, A. and I. General, Dec., 1863. Cole, Robert G., Lieutenant-colonel, Chief Commissary of Subsistence June, 1862-April 9, 1865. Cooke, Giles B., Major, A. A. General Nov. 4, 1864. Corley, James L., Lieutenant-colonel, Chief Quartermaster June, 1862-April, 1865. Crenshaw, Joseph R., Major, Acting Commissary-general April 29, 1861. Deas, George, Major, A. A. General, Chief of Staff June 15, 1861; Lieutenantcolonel, A. A. General July 4, 1861 (Virginia State Forces). Garnett, R....
