{"id":107465,"date":"2021-05-27T19:19:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T00:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=107465"},"modified":"2021-05-27T19:20:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T00:20:24","slug":"general-lee-on-troops-landing-at-newport-news-and-possible-threat-to-yorktown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/general-lee-on-troops-landing-at-newport-news-and-possible-threat-to-yorktown\/","title":{"rendered":"General Lee on Troops Landing at Newport News and Possible Threat to Yorktown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-size: large;\">Headquarters Virginia Forces,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Richmond, Va., May 27, 1861.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div>Col. <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-size: large;\">J. B. Magruder<\/span>, <em>Commanding, &amp;c. , Yorktown, Va.:<\/em><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-size: large;\">Sir<\/span>: I have received information, by telegraph, to-day from Norfolk that the Federal troops are landing at Newport News. I deem it proper to inform you of this, as it may be their intention to move on to Warwick Court-House, and thence, by the road, to Yorktown. Captains Cosby and Hood, of the Confederate Army, have been ordered to report to you for the purpose of instructing the cavalry troop.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">I am, general, with respect, your obedient servant,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 40px;\">R. E. LEE,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>General, Commanding.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headquarters Virginia Forces, Richmond, Va., May 27, 1861. Col. J. B. Magruder, Commanding, &amp;c. , Yorktown, Va.: Sir: I have received information, by telegraph, to-day from Norfolk that the Federal troops are landing at Newport News. I deem it proper to inform you of this, as it may be their intention to move on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":107321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-of-the-rebellion-a-compilation-of-the-official-records-of-the-union-and-confederate-armies"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lee.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}