[Letter] 1865 June 29, Richmond, Va. [to] J.R. Bartlett, Providence, R.I. / ,cH.W.H. [Henry W. Halleck]

Ms.; At top: Head Quarters Military Division of the James. Recipient identified and commented on by Jerry E. Mueller, Research Associate at the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island.

In response to Bartlett's letter, Halleck states that he has not written anything about the "rebellion" [American Civil War] other than his official reports and correspondence from 1862 and 1863. Though he does not have copies of these documents himself, they can be procured from the War Department in Washington. Halleck also mentions that he translated "Jomini's Life of Napolean" and wrote his "International Law" before the war, although they were published during it. The recipient of the letter, John Russell Bartlett, was a bibliophile, ethnographer, librarian to John Carter Brown, U. S. Boundary Commissioner (1850-1853), and Rhode Island's Secretary of State (1855-1872). He also compiled _The Literature of the Rebellion: A Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the Civil War in the United States, and on Subjects Growing out of that Event, Together with Works on American Slavery, and Essays from Reviews on the Same Subjects_.