LEE RICHARD HENRY Autograph Letter Signed to Brigadier Gener

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LEE, RICHARD HENRY. Autograph Letter Signed, to Brigadier General George Weedon, discussing rumors of British plans, and considering the formation of a permanent militia camp. 3 pages, 4to, on a single folded sheet; moderate bleed-through. "Epping Forest" [Lancaster County, VA], 23 August 1781

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Lee has received "a letter from the Marquis informing me that Cornwallis had collected his whole force, a feeble garrison in Portsmouth excepted, in Gloucester Town Neck, and that it was his opinion we should shortly have some strong work upon hand. . . . I understand Gen. Washington's opinion to be that they will strain every nerve to possess as much of Virginia as possible this fall & winter."