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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 34: (search)
he words: If the thing is pressed, I think that Lee will surrender. The general-in-chief forwarded Grant, Lieutenant-General. At this juncture Lee's own officers had proposed to him to surrenderdan had been right in denouncing the conduct of Lee. The rebel chief, in his latest letter to Grantion was a subterfuge. The fact is, that when Lee perceived his inability to force a passage throill open to Lynchburg, and by this route one of Lee's nephews, General Fitz-Hugh Lee, even now led replied: Twelve days rations. The surrender of Lee occurred on the twelfth day. This was not th their cause was still not lost. But neither Lee nor Davis even yet understood the man with whomh, unintermitted, could have but one end. While Lee was making for the Appomattox and attempting to national troops at Jetersville. But, though Lee himself had also neglected to use his chance, a way, as they fondly thought, to Lynchburg; and Lee defiantly informed his pursuer that the emergen[68 more...]
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 35: (search)
Sheridan characteristics of Meade, Thomas, and Lee further traits of Lee fitting representative at he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of Lee'sLee's army, or on solely minor and purely military matters. He instructs me to say that you are not to on similar to those arranged between Grant and Lee. All acts of war on the part of Johnston's armyount of the exigencies in front of Johnston and Lee. Stoneman marched from East Tennessee, at fia gun was fired in anger after the surrender of Lee was known. Not a soldier held out; not a guerind Johnston at Vicksburg, Bragg at Chattanooga, Lee in Virginia, and all of them altogether in the med defenses, but at last were only snares. If Lee perceived this situation, he had not the force duplicity —but stubborn, valiant, and arrogant, Lee was on the whole a fitting representative of a the communication of this decision was the last official act in the intercourse of Lee and Grant. [20 more...]
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Appendix to Chapter XXVII. (search)
Appendix to Chapter XXVII. General Early to General Lee. Port Republic, September 25, 1864. General: I had determined to write you a full account of recent events, but I am too much occupied to do so. In the fight at Winchester I drove back the enemy's infantry and would have defeated that, but his cavalry broke mine on the left flank, the latter making no stand, and I had to take a division to stop the progress of the former and save my trains, and during the fighting in the rearI deeply regret the present state of things, and I assure you everything in my power has been done to avert it. The enemy's force is very much larger than mine, being three or four to one. Respectfully, J. A. Early, Lieutenant-General. General Lee to General Early.—(confidential.) Headquarters, Petersburg, September 27, 1864. General: Your letter of the 25th is received. I very much regret the reverses that have occurred to the army in the valley, but trust they can be remedied. T
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 2: (search)
n the terms granted to their fellows at Appomattox. There were 7,000 of these, among them General Custis Lee, a son of the Southern commander. But Grant considered that men taken in battle with arms was prompt to temper to changed conditions in another. In the summer of 1866, a daughter of General Lee fell dangerously ill in North Carolina. Lee was then living at Lexington, in Virginia, and sLee was then living at Lexington, in Virginia, and supposed that his parole did not allow him to leave his home, even to visit a dying child. I learned the fact and reported it to Grant, who at once directed me to enclose a formal extension of his parole to Lee, but to state that at this late day he did not consider the extension necessary. General Lee acknowledged the obligation in the following letter: Lexington, Va., August 3, 1866. General Lee acknowledged the obligation in the following letter: Lexington, Va., August 3, 1866. Colonel,—I have had the honor to receive your letter of the 26th ult., enclosing an extension of the limits of my parole. I am very much obliged to the General Commanding the armies of the United
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of the Lee Memorial Association. (search)
itten in 1798, making bequest of $50,000 to Liberty Hall Academy. Action of the Board of Trustees calling General Lee to the presidency of Washington College in 1865. General Lee's letter of acceptance. Personal Recollections of General Lee, by General Pendleton, delivered by him on the second anniversary of his death. Reminiscence, anecdotes and letters of General R. E. Lee, by J. William Jones, D. D. Roll of Liberty-Hall Volunteers. Photographs of General R. E. Lee, General Custis Lee, and the Board of Trustees and Faculty. Copies of Records of the Lee Memorial Association. A copy of the Southern Collegian, containing an account of the funeral ceremonies of General R. E. Lee. Names of members of the Lee Memorial Association. Names of Executive Committee of Lee Memorial Association. Copies of Southern Collegian for October and November, 1878. The ceremonies were closed with a benediction by Dr. Pendleton. The mausoleum proper, which has but rec
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Lee and Scott. (search)
ia, I was directed by President Davis to go to the General and to urge upon him to recommend his distinguished son, General Custis Lee, to an important command, for which President Davis thought him admirably fitted, but to which he could not assign nd spent several hours in his tent at night talking over the importance of the command to which it was desired that General Custis Lee should be assigned, and delivered to him messages which had been sent by President Davis upon the subject, and urge him by every consideration which I could think of to comply with the President's wishes as to the recommendation. General Custis Lee was recognized as one of the most distinguished graduates sent out from West Point, and a man of high attainments, him, and which he reiterated at different times in the conversation, when I would urge the President's wishes, was General Custis Lee is my son, and whilst I think very well of his abilities, yet, in my opinion, he has not been sufficiently tried in
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Virginia campaign of 1864-1865. (search)
00 present for duty. （Colonel Taylor makes General Lee's force nearly 64,000.) Grant's purpose gh the tangled, wooded wilderness which covered Lee's right flank, and force him to fight in the mo threatening his communications with Richmond. Lee anticipated his adversary, and leaving his cantanover Junction. Here the position taken up by Lee was so advantageous that Grant drew off withoutside of the James. Grant did not. He knew that Lee had been forced to detach Breckinridge and Earlhmond followed, which were completely foiled by Lee, and with heavy cost to the Federals. By the 3de for the springing of a mine on the centre of Lee's Petersburg lines. A vigorous demonstration oend of September, but all other efforts against Lee's lines during the autumn proved costly and abossly harried the Shenandoah Valley. For months Lee's men, in the trenches at Petersburg, were but led, and cost him heavily. Grant moved against Lee's right flank and communications as soon as the[15 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Correction of errors in statement of Governor Anderson, and letter of General Echols. (search)
eral and to urge upon him to recommend his distinguished son, General Custis Lee, to an important command, for which President Davis thought her the importance of the command to which it was desired that General Custis Lee should be assigned, and delivered to him messages which had b conversation, when I would urge the President's wishes, was, General Custis Lee is my son, and whilst I think very well of his abilities, yet my present position. Modesty and courtesy were characteristics of Lee, and self-assertion, even to the extent it was just, was no part of ludes, some gentlemen in Western Virginia requested me to appoint Custis Lee to the command of that department. He was then, and had for somet upon him. It must have been after this that General Echols saw General Lee, and thinking, no doubt, like myself, that Custis Lee was very wCustis Lee was very well suited to the command, he may naturally have enforced his opinion by a reference to my own, but General Robert Lee knew too well what was
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Evacuation of Richmond. (search)
agration resulted from the action of the authorities. A few miles from the river the command united with that of General Custis Lee, and moved in the direction of Amelia Courthouse. Learning that all the upper crossings of the Appomattox were impeld at bay until the last of the train had passed the point attacked, when I was directed to follow the movement of General Custis Lee's division. Before my troops left the ground Gordon's advance appeared, while his rear was engaged with the enemy.ced in the edge of the wood, with his right resting on the road; Simms on the right of the road, a little in advance. General Lee's division was on the left of the road, his right occupying a line in front of DuBose, his left on the same line, or nspital, and swept our position at short range, and under cover of the fire the Second and Sixth corps attacked us. Both in Lee's front and my own they were repulsed with loss on every advance, but pressed us constantly with fresh troops, extending a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Long's memoir of General R. E. Lee. (search)
at Arlington to his son, G. W. Custis Lee, at West Point, but which General Lee said, at the time, he never wrote, General Custis Lee said he never received, Mrs. Lee pronounced spurious, and we have had occasion several times to prove to be a forgeMrs. Lee pronounced spurious, and we have had occasion several times to prove to be a forgery, from internal evidence as well as from the testimony of the family. 7. We are sorry to see also that, on page 338, the author copies an error, into which Jones, in his Reminiscences of Lee, was led, in attributing the incident of Gordon's men Lee, was led, in attributing the incident of Gordon's men refusing to go forward unless General Lee would go to the rear to the tenth of May, 1864, instead of to the twelfth, the real day, as General Early, Colonel Venable, General Gordon, and others showed, and we have several times published in our papeGeneral Lee would go to the rear to the tenth of May, 1864, instead of to the twelfth, the real day, as General Early, Colonel Venable, General Gordon, and others showed, and we have several times published in our papers. But let us say again that despite these blemishes the book is a valuable contribution to our Confederate war literature, and we cordially commend it as worthy of a place in every library. May our gallant friend, General Long, live to write o
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