0100: WILLIAM ROBBINS HANDWRITTEN LETTER TO LONGSTREET Start Price USD 750.00 Current Price USD 750.00 Time Left - Bid Count 2 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, October 11, 2008 End Time Saturday, October 11, 2008 Location Bridgeport, WV, USA See more about '0100: WILLIAM ROBBINS HANDWRITTEN LETTER TO LONGSTREET' Description click for larger image0100: WILLIAM ROBBINS HANDWRITTEN LETTER TO LONGSTREETGETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD PROPOSALS100. [JAMES LONGSTREET] ALS, 2½pp, 8½"x10¾", Gettysburg, Jan 11, 1899. [Major] WILLIAM M. ROBBINS (1828-1905), the Confederate member of the Gettysburg Battlefield Commission who served with the 4th Alabama, writes at length to Longstreet with regard to naming the Confederate avenues along their lines during the famous battle. Excellent content. In part: "...My Honored Commander: Your valued favor of 7th inst. has been duly received. I write now merely to say, in response to one of your suggestions, that as the avenues on the Confederate side are not yet finished - not even one of them being fully completed its entire length - the question of naming them has not yet been authoritatively settled, & so the general designation of 'Confederate Avenue' has been used in reference to the parts that have been constructed. I have always been in the habit myself of speaking of the one which has been built from the Fairfield (or Wheatfield) Road southward along our Corps line & curving eastward to and up the west slope of Big Round Top to the base of Little Round Top (over two miles long) as 'Longstreet Avenue' & I guess this will be the official name fixed by our Commission...That portion of it which will run along the line of Barksdale & Wofford (McLaws's left) remains yet unconstructed, but will be built this coming spring, I think..." Robbins mentions that a tract of land is currently being litigated by the government which wants to condemn it for use as part of the battlefield park "and other land along the Confed. line of Hill's Corps, up to the Lutheran Seminary... embracing Spangler's Woods from the eastern border of which Pickett's Division started on its charge...& construct our avenue also along the whole front of Hill's Corps - 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. The custom on the Union side has been to name avenues of the Corps commanders whose Corps lay along the respective lines followed by the several avenues - and I see no reason why this same idea should not be followed in naming avenues along the Confederate lines..." Darkly penned and signed. Light general toning; 1/3 of bottom margin on last leaf trimmed; small edge tear with no paper loss; minor small ink bleed; else near Fine. 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