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[109] him, I will take a good look at him. I studied every feature of his face, and though his countenance was serious and clouded with sombre thought that day, I turned away as he left me with the thought that he was handsome beyond all the men I had ever seen. Again I saw him when I enlisted in May, 1861, and once or twice in 1862, notably at his headquarters below Richmond, just after the raid of General Stuart around McClellan, on the Chickahominy. He had allowed his beard to grow and it had turned very gray. I saw him no more until the 2d day of July, 1863, at Gettysburg, nor can I dwell on that view of him further than to speak of carrying dispatches from General Stuart there. At Hagerstown I carried messages to General Lee and found him flying at his headquarters for the first time ‘The Milk White Banner of the Confederacy,’ with the battle-flag at its union, which formed the next to the last national flag of our country.
Richmond, VA. 1900.
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