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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 14: siege of Petersburg. (search)
heir fate the noble women, children, and old men of the two cities, whose hearths and homes he had been so long defending. The question of withdrawal was discussed with Mr. Davis, who consented to it, the line of retreat was decided, and Danville, in Virginia, selected as the point to retire upon. It was determined to collect supplies at that point, so that Lee, rapidly moving from his lines, could form a junction with General Joseph E. Johnston, who on February 23d had been instructed to assh his small force he could only annoy Sherman, not stop him, adding: You have only to decide where to meet Sherman; I will be near him. It is possible Lee, with his army out of the trenches, gaining strength from other quarters as he marched to Danville, and with absentees returning, as in that event many would, could have carried to Johnston fifty or sixty thousand fighting menmaking their combined force over seventy thousand effectives, as against Sherman's ninety thousand. The South would h
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 15: evacuation of Richmond and the Petersburg lines.--retreat and surrender. (search)
us look at the house. Mr. Davis was then in Danville, from which place on the 5th he published a pould plant the Army of the Potomac across the Danville road at Burkeville, as well as at another poiBurkeville. In that case Lee's withdrawal to Danville would be blocked, his junction with Johnston Had Lee once passed beyond Burkeville, the Danville road could have supplied his army, its trains transported them to Danville, and via Greensborough to Raleigh and Goldsborough, or wherever Johnstlies. Lee ordered them to be sent there from Danville, for he has so stated; and General J. M. St. to Amelia Court House either from Richmond or Danville; and Mr. Lewis Harvie, then the president of f supplies arrived at Amelia Court House from Danville, but the officer in charge was met there by a nothing of any such orders. Cut off from Danville, the Southern troops were directed on Farmvilourt House through Pittsylvania County toward Danville. Two battalions of artillery and the ammunit[1 more...]