...ed wife, zounds man, that is just what I come for. The Governor thereupon gave me an order to General R. E. Lee, then Adjutant-General of our State, to prepare my commission. Upon presenting it, General Lee , after glancing over it, looked up with manifest surprise, he, too, doubtless thinking I was too old; and pausing a moment, and without a word, he filled up and handed it to me. I took it to the Gove...