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Parole list of Engineer troops,
Army of Northern Virginia
, surrendered at
Appomattox C. H.
,
April
9th
,
1865
.
Presentation of the portrait of
Lieut.-General
Wade
Hampton
,
C. S. Cavalry
, [from the times-dispatch,
September
16
,
1904
.]
The
Fredericksburg artillery
,
Captain
Edward
S.
Marye
, [from the times-dispatch,
January
8
,
1905
.]
‘ [239] Early's capacity and energy as displayed in the campaign while General Breckenridge was with him.’ As General Breckenridge had been urged by Governor Smith as Early's successor, this excerpt very naturally ended the correspondence. And there is every reason to believe that General Lee went to his grave with his estimate of General Early unchanged. The following is taken from President Davis's endorsement on the correspondence between Governor Smith and General Lee:
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