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William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War, Chapter 25: spring of 1865. (search)
w on Sunday morning in St. Paul's church. That night he left the city with the members of his Cabinet and the attaches of the several departments and retired to Danville. From that place he issued a stirring proclamation urging the Southern people to show that they were no less able to endure misfortune with fortitude than to enpes. In the meanwhile General Lee, with the remnant of his army, was struggling through deep and miry roads towards Farmville. He hoped to be able to reach Danville and establish a new defensive line along the Roanoke and Dan rivers, but the Federals, fresh and well-equipped, moving rapidly with heavy cavalry forces by paralThen General Lee glanced reproachfully toward Grant, as though to say, You might have spared me this. The news of General Lee's surrender reached Mr. Davis at Danville on the 10th of April. He went thence to Greensboro, North Carolina, where he met Generals Johnston and Beauregard, both of whom assured him that in their judgme