...g/TR/xhtml1/strict">river, was General Lee, with less than 55,000 men (see official reports in Taylor's and General Fitzhugh Lee's address before the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia, on Chancellorsville ); his only avenue of supply the Richmond and Fredericksburg railroad, sixty miles in length, already in so worn-out a condition that it was impossible to accumulate more than a few days' supplies ahe...