New York Hotel, N. Y.

                                                                                    13 May 1866.

My dear General.

                                    I have learned incidentally that you were engaged in preparing a history of “the war,” but were embarrassed by the want of many official documents.  I have quite a number of these, which I will take pleasure in placing at your disposal, and will gladly aid you in the endeavor to procure others that you may need.

            I send you a general list of those in my possession –

                                                                        I remain yrs truly

                                                                                    M. Lovell

Genl R. E. Lee.

            Lexington.

                        Va

Reports of

            Pensacola Navy Yard & Forts (evacuation)

            Fort Henry  - Tenn

               “    Donaldson  “

            New Mexico  -  Genl Sibley

            Shiloh               Genl Beauregard & others

            Jacksonville.    Fla

            New Orleans  -               Genls Sewell & Duncan

            South Niches              “ Huger

            Tennesssee River          “ Leadbetter

            Princeton                     “ H. Marshall

            Crooked River

            Corinth – evacuation of             Beauregard

            James Island  S. C.                             Pemberton etc

            Kentucky Expedition                           Morgan

            Peninsula                                              Magruder

            Pinckney Island S. C.                           Pemberton

            Gallatin – Tenn                          J. H. Morgan

            Bridgeport &  Battle Creek               Genl Maxey

            Richmond  Ky                                      E. K. Smith

            Seven Pines                                        D. H. Hill

            Fayette Court House                             Loring 

            Kernstown                                          Jackson

            Winchester                                                 “

            Near Jacksonville Fla                                    Finnigan

            Baton Rouge                                      Breckinridge

            Trans Mississippi                                Heridmann

            Operations in Mississippi &                J. E. Johnston  

            E. Tennessee – Vicksburg                     and

            Baker’s Creek etc                                 Pemberton

            Texas-                                                  Magruder

            West Louisiana -                               R. Taylor

               Chattanooga -                                      Bragg

            Defense of Charleston S. C.                Beauregard, Ripley etc

            Droop Mountain                                  Echols

            Rappahannock Ridge -                         R. E. Lee

            Chancellorsville                                    R. E. Lee & subordinates

            Also Report of Evidence taken by “Joint Congressional Committee” on the affairs of the “Navy Department of the Confederacy –

            Correspondence between War Dept and Genl M. Sewell – relation to New Orleans

            Proceedings of Court of Inquiry on the “Fate of New Orleans.”

Notation