...g and everything this side of the ultimate disaster; but that-never! This was emphatically my position. I well remember that after the evacuation and on the retreat,--indeed but one day before Sailor's Creek ,--I left the line of march for an hour to see my mother, who was refugeeing in Amelia County, at the country home of a prominent gentleman of Richmond, beyond military age, who, when he saw me, excla...