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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 14: siege of Petersburg. (search)
your supply of socks is so large. If two or three hundred would send an equal number we should have a sufficiency. I will endeavor to have them distributed to the most needy. And again on December 17, 1864: I received day before yesterday the box with hat, gloves, and socks; also the barrel of apples. You had better have kept the latter, as it would have been more useful to you than to me, and I should have enjoyed its consumption by yourself and the girls more than by me. And on December 30, 1864, he tells her: The Lyons furs and fur robe have also arrived safely, but I can learn nothing of the saddle of mutton. Bryan, of whom I inquired as to its arrival, is greatly alarmed lest it has been sent to the soldiers' dinner. If the soldiers get it I shall be content. I can do very well without it. In fact, I should rather they would have it than I. And on January 10, 1865, after stating how the socks which Mrs. Lee had sent had been distributed to the army, the general writes: