r the pines the day after its arrival, and assembled all the young gentlemen [of his staff] around it; and though I told them it was a present from a beautiful young lady, they did not leave a crumb.
I want a good servant badly.
Perry [an old Arlington servant] is very willing, and I believe does as well as he can. You know he is very slow and inefficient, and moves very like his father Lawrence.
He is also very fond of his blankets in the morning — the time I most require him. I hope he wild them.
I fear there are others among the White House lot which I did not discover.
As to the attacks of the Northern papers, I do not mind them, and do not think it wise to make the publication you suggest.
If all the names of the people at Arlington and on the Pamunkey are not embraced in the deed I have executed, I should like a supplementary deed to be drawn up containing all those omitted.
They are all entitled to their freedom, and I wish to give it to them.
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, mentioned, 141, 206, 254; at Gettysburg, 279, 288; succeeds Longstreet, 331; recalled, 352; at Five Forks, 376.
Anderson, General, Robert, mentioned, 87.
Andrew, Governor John A., mentioned, 145.
Antietam, battle of, 208.
Appomattox Court House, Va., 386, 387.
Arab couplet quoted, 114.
Archer's brigade at Gettysburg, 296.
Aristo, General, Mariano, 32.
Arlington Heights, 108.
Arlington House, Va., mentioned, 26, 49, 63, 65, 71, 72, 76, 77, 85, 88, 89, 99, 198, 366.
Arlington slaves liberated, 236, 238.
Armies of the Confederacy, 326.
Armistead, General, Lewis, mentioned, 58, 288; killed at Gettysburg, 296.
Army of the James, 387.
Army of Northern Virginia, 311, 312, 348, 379, 386.
Army of the Potomac, 173, 182, 309, 313, 351, 377.
Army of the Shenandoah, 352.
Army of the Tennessee, 372.
Army of Virginia, 175.
Assault on Fort Stedman, 371.
Austin, Stephen F., mentioned, 31.
Averell, General William W., mentioned, 241, 242, 340, 341.
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