Eldest son of Robert E. Lee, who served as a Confederate general and aide-de-camp to Jefferson Davis. ALS signed “G. W. C. Lee,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, May 3, 1897. Letter to Charles Sprague. In part: “I have just written to Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss to the effect that I shall be glad if he will write the Va. Chapter for the forth coming Confederate Military History. If he will not do it, there is Col. Chas S. Venable, who was one of my father’s Aides-de-Camp throughout the Civil War…Besides himself, Col. Chas. Marshall, Col. Walter Taylor, and Col. T. M. R. Talcott there is no one of Genl. Lee’s military family living. When you have found some one, please let me know, and I will give him some facts that have not been published.” In fine condition. RR Auction COA.
