JAMES LONGSTREET IS TOLD ABOUT THE CREATION OF
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JAMES LONGSTREET IS TOLD ABOUT THE CREATION OF GETTYSBURG NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD A great postwar Confederate Gettysburg National Military Park letter 3pp. 4to. written by William M. Robbins Gettysburg Jan. 11 1899 to Gen. James Longstreet describing the creation of Gettysburg National Military Park. Here responding to an inquiry from Longstreet representative for North Carolina he describes the main road being built along the Confederate line past Big and Little Round Top: ""...I have always been in the habit myself of speaking of the one . . . as Longstreet Avenue & I guess this will be the official name fixed by our Commissioners when they take formal action. . . . The custom on the Union side has been to name avenues after Corps commanders..."" The proposed road now bears the name Confederate Avenue. Robbins also describes the commission's legal efforts to condemn: ""...other land along the Confed. line of Hill's Corps up to the Lutheran Seminary . . . the eastern border of which Pickett's Division started on its charge. . . . Ewell's line on the left lies on ground yet owned by private parties & must be acquired by Govt. before we can mark his positions..."". Very good.
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