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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 54: (search)
Beauregard. I have no official report from General Lee. The Secretary of War may be able to add t of Petersburg and especially about the time of Lee's surrender, had absented themselves to go homeile it was able either to fight or to retreat. Lee had surrendered his army only when it was impos I told him I could not believe that he or General Lee, or the officers of the Confederate army, cred the same terms which had been made with General Lee, and he says, General Johnston, without hest is true that these were the terms accepted by Lee, but the condition of the two armies was very different. Lee's supplies had been cut off, his men were exhausted by fatigue and hunger; he had no those who under similar circumstances had left Lee. The show of continued resistance, I then belieat he could not oppose my army, and that, since Lee had surrendered, he could do the same with honowithdrew from Mobile, news had been received of Lee's surrender. Taylor says the news was soon dis[1 more...]
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