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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.17 (search)
When he had been in Virginia more than two years, and had been in many battles, his mother wrote to President Davis, and in her letter used these words: I notice that General Lee has gone into winter quarters, and there will be no fighting for several weeks. So, if my boy has done his duty, I respectfully beg that he be granted a furlough to come home to see me, for I greatly long to see him. Mark the simplicity and sublimity of that mother's words: If my boy has done his duty. Bishop Polk gives an instance of sublime devotion of a Tennessee mother, who gave five sons to the Confederacy. When the first one was killed, and the Bishop was trying to say some words of comfort, she said: My son Billy will be old enough next spring to take his brother's place. The only idea of duty that this heroic mother had was to give her boys to the cause she loved as soon as they were old enough to bear a musket. Such was the spirit of your mothers and your grandmothers. I will tel