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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
of the Federal army, and request protection of the citizens and their property. Zzzgeneral Lee reticent. The committee, which consisted of the Mayor (Hon. W. W. Townes), James Boisseau (as well as I can remember), and myself—the records of the Council do not show who the committee were—waited on General Lee at his headquartr more, and to meet again at 4 o'clock the next morning to take the several routes leading into the city to meet and surrender the city to the Federal forces. Mayor Townes and myself were to take the direction of Cox road and the Dupuy road, and to pass through what was then known as the Model Farm, the open field immediately wesme forward towards us from the Federal earthworks from which they emerged-these works and the Confederate works, at this point, being less than 200 yards apart-Mayor Townes and I attempted to state our mission, but the officers would not take time to stop to hear what we had to say, the men rushing ahead to enter the city, but bad