Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Breckinridge” in chapter 1.5 of Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5.:
... they believed that Lee could avoid surrender only a short time longer.
A few days thereafter the news of this expected calamity reached them, when they turned their faces again toward the South.
Breckinridge , the Secretary of War, was sent to confer with Johnston, but found him only in time to assist in drawing up the terms of his celebrated capitulation to Sherman.
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