Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Gen. J. C. Breckinridge” in chapter 31 of Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia:
...n Sunday, April 2, 1865, the day following the defeat of Pickett at Five Forks, the day of the breaking of the Petersburg lines and the death of A. P. Hill, General Lee sent the following dispatch to Gen. J. C. Breckinridge , the Confederate secretary of war:
I see no prospect of doing more than holding our position here till night I am not certain that I can do that.
If I can I shall withdraw to-night north of th...
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