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General Robert E. Lee as one of the greatest soldiers of the civil war.
But for his generalship the Southern Confederacy would no doubt have sooner broken up, and he kept his army together under circumstances that would have appalled almost any other leader.
General Lee accepted the situation after Appomattox in the true spirit which characterized all his actions, and I feel sure that when he died he had the respect of every Northern soldier and sailor, to say nothing of the thousands of citizens who admired his private character.
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A list of Confederate officers, prisoners, who were held by Federal authority on
Morris Island, S. C.
, under Confederate fire from
September
7th
to
October
21st
,
1864
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