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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC09255 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents: Miscellaneous Dates |
| Title | Letter from Sydney Smith Lee to his brother Charles Carter Lee |
| Date | ca. 1860-1869 |
| Author | Lee, Sydney Smith (1802-1869) |
| Recipient | Lee, Charles Carter |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | To his brother, Charles Carter Lee, giving news of his son Fitzhugh Lee's serious wound at the Third Battle of Winchester on 9/19/1864. "My dear Fitz was slightly wounded in the fight near 'Winchester,' Fitz has been sick for 11 days and was not well when he went into the fight… had two horses shot under him.... His poor Nelly Gray was wounded so bad he had to abandon her-… He had her in the first Manassas fight.… But alas-she has gone.… My dear boy wrote to me after he was wounded and said he had done his best....the ball that struck him went through a thigh and through the saddle and killed the horse. So much for the fight in the valley." |
| Subjects | Battle of Winchester Confederate States of America Injury or Wound Military History |
| People | Lee, Sidney Smith (1802-1869) Lee, Charles Carter (fl. ca. 1860-1869) |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Children & Family |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Theater of War | Main Eastern Theater |