Identifier: genrobertedwardl00broc (find matches)
Title: Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914
Subjects: Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Publisher: Richmond, Va., B. F. Johnson Publishing Co
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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eeling tha emained steadfast Ide iiplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that;rmined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past St ha itry ha In the terms of agreement officers and men can retutake with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the corpray that a merciful God will extend to you his blessingconstancy and devotion to your country, and gratefulof myself, I bid you an affectionate farewell. n to their homes and remain till exchanged. You williciousness of duty faithfully performed, and I earnestlymd protection. With an unceasing admiration of youremembrance of your kind and generous considerationR. E. LEE, General Commanding. Lougstreets judgment, that when Pickett asked for orders to advancehe gave no reply, and Pickett said, proudly : I shall go forward, sir !Anyone visiting the ground to-day will surely be impressed with thestupendous character of General Lees undertaking. To advanceover a mile of open field, affording little or no shelter, in the face
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GENERA!, I,EE GREETED BY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS ON HIS RETURN FROM APPOMATTOX.(310) SOLDIER, CITIZEN AND CHRISTIAN PATRIOT. 311 of the Union force sheltered behind stone walls and improvisedbreastworks, and in the face of nearly one hundred guns of Huntersartillery, massed on Cemetery Ridge, strikes even the novice inwarfare as the most daring, if not the most reckless, of militaryundertakings. It seems as futile as the repeated charges of Burn-sides army, up Maryes Heights, which officers and men, who obe3edordei-s with a magnificent disregard of life, felt to be the acme ofmilitary madness. Gettysburg should have closed the contest. If General Leeentertained this view he was overruled by those who, at the seatof the Confederate Government, were not witnesses of the carnage,and not observers of the demoralizing effects of the dishearteningdefeat. After Gettysburg the tide turned unmistakably, and from allparts of the great field of battle, east, west and south, came newsof a general a

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