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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 17: events in and near the National Capital. (search)
illocks, covering the remains of officers. In the midst of this garner of the ghastly fruits of the treason of Lee and his associates — fruits that had been literally laid at his door--were the beautiful white marble monuments erected to the memory of the venerable Custis and his life-companion — the founders of Arlington House and the parents of Lee's wife. On that of the former we read the sweet words of Jesus, Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Then we thought of Belle Island, in the James River, which we had just visited, and of the hundreds of our starved countrymen held there as prisoners in the blistering summer's sun and the freezing winter's storm, into whose piteous faces, where every lineament was a tale of unutterable suffering vainly pleading in mute eloquence for mercy, Robert E. Lee might have looked any hour of the day with his field-glass from the rear gallery of his elegant brick mansion on Franklin Street, in Richmond. It seemed almost as if t