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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 23: the fall of 1864 (search)
surrender. visit to Washington. conversations with Mr. Washburne. return home. record of the army of Northern Virginia. . The party had an escort of cavalry, and included Hon. E. B. Washburne of Ill., well known as the special friend of Gen. Gcourse of the ride Wilcox and I had a conversation with Mr. Washburne, which impressed us both deeply at the time, and which,ne time, when the three mentioned were riding together, Mr. Washburne asked us, — What, in your opinion, will now be the The question will not be what are we going to do, Mr. Washburne, but what is Mr. Lincoln going to do? Well; gentlemen,n as we were alone together, we compared notes as to what Washburne could have meant. In view of our poverty it could only hsince felt convinced that Lincoln, in that interview with Washburne, recurred to his well-known wish to do that act of justice to the South, and that Washburne believed that he would now be able to accomplish it with the prestige which success in the