(CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE) Robbins William M Describing the cr

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Robbins, William M. Describing the creation of the Gettysburg National Military Park to General Longstreet. Autograph Letter Signed as Gettysburg battlefield commissioner to General James Longstreet. 3 pages, 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches, on 3 sheets; last sheet lacking blank bottom panel, minor wear. Gettysburg, PA, 11 January 1899

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William McKendree Robbins had been a major in the 4th Alabama Infantry, and after the war served as a United States Representative for North Carolina. He was also one of the Commissioners for the Gettysburg National Military Park. Here, responding to an inquiry from General Longstreet, he describes the main road being built along the Confederate line past Big and Little Round Top, and informs that "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."