A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . ers have heaped upon him. Notwithstand-ing this, in speaking of them he neither evinced any bit-terness of feeling nor gave utterance to a single violentexpression. He spoke as a man proud of his victorieswon by his country, and confident of ultimate success,under the blessing of the Almighty. General Lees Address.—Lee published this grand ad-dress to his army and went into camp near Winchester,w^here they all rested for many weeks: *0n the evening of the battle Lee asked General Lon^fstreet, How has today ? * The ground
A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . ers have heaped upon him. Notwithstand-ing this, in speaking of them he neither evinced any bit-terness of feeling nor gave utterance to a single violentexpression. He spoke as a man proud of his victorieswon by his country, and confident of ultimate success,under the blessing of the Almighty. General Lees Address.—Lee published this grand ad-dress to his army and went into camp near Winchester,w^here they all rested for many weeks: *0n the evening of the battle Lee asked General Lon^fstreet, How has today ? * The ground is covered by my dead and wounded. I havebut a skirmish line left, and I hope you will cross into Virginia to-night. Leethen asked Jackson the same question, and received the same reply as to the con-dition of his corps, and as to the propriety of crossing the Potomac. He nest aslcedHill, and received a like answer. Lee then said, Gentlemen, get in your strag-glers; be ready to renew the battle in the morning. I shall not cross the Poto-mac A. p. HILL. History of Virginia and Virginians. 187 ** In reviewing the achievements of the army during the present cam-paign, the commanding general cannot withhold the expression of hisadmiration of the indomitable courage it has displayed in battle and thecheerful endurance of privation and hardships on the march. * Since your great victories around Richmond you have defeated theenemy at Cedar Mountain, expelled him from the Rappahannock, and aftera conflict of three days utterly repulsed him on the plains of Manassas andforced him to take shelter within the fortifications around his halting for repose you crossed the Potomac, stormed the heightsof Harpers Ferry, made prisoners of more than eleven thousand six hun-dred men, and captured upward of seventy pieces of artillery, all theirsmall-arras and other munitions of war. While one corps of the army wasthus engaged the other insured its success by arresting a
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