. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . sujjreme men of , in splendid measure, are the attributes of Lee, and theywere never more conspicuously displayed than in the Gettys-buig campaign. Success is not always a true measure of great-ness, but insistence upon success as a standard is a very goodmeasure for a certain kind of smallness. JNIeade not acting on the offensive, Lee began to retreatand at last got his armj across the Potomac. JNIeade followedhim into Virginia, but no important fighting was done in thatState during the remainder of 1863, a year in whi
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . sujjreme men of , in splendid measure, are the attributes of Lee, and theywere never more conspicuously displayed than in the Gettys-buig campaign. Success is not always a true measure of great-ness, but insistence upon success as a standard is a very goodmeasure for a certain kind of smallness. JNIeade not acting on the offensive, Lee began to retreatand at last got his armj across the Potomac. JNIeade followedhim into Virginia, but no important fighting was done in thatState during the remainder of 1863, a year in which the Con-federacy fared badly elsewhere. Lee suggested that he shouldbe relieved by a jounger man, but President Davis Avas toowise to accede, and the Southern cause was assured of its cham-pion, even though the gaunt forms of famine and defeat keptdrawing nearer and nearer. Lees army suffered severely during the winter of 1863-64 in the defenses behind the Rapidan, but its chief bore allprivations with a simple Christian fortitude that renders super- [68].
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