Joseph Eggleston Johnston collectionJoseph Eggleston Johnston collection WLU.Coll.0069Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and ArchivesThis finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-02-04 07:01:34 -0500.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives Joseph Eggleston Johnston collection WLU.Coll.0069 /repositories/5/resources/45 0.01 Linear Feet 1 folder 1865 April 27, 1884 January 24 English Conditions Governing Access

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Joseph Eggleston Johnston Collection (WLU Coll. 0069), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a manuscript copy of Joseph E. Johnston's General Order No. 18, dated April 27, 1865, a letter dated January 24, 1884 written by Johnston to possibly James F. Rogers, and an autographed photograph of Johnston.

Johnston's General Order No. 18 deals with the cessation of hostilities at the end of the Civil War. The letter concerns letters from Robert E. Lee.

Photographs Correspondence Military orders Confederate States of America Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 Collection/repositories/5/archival_objects/315211865 April 27, 1884 January 24Manuscripts Small Collections Box 2