. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . •--20 WAITING FOR HIS BREAKFAST. FROM A WAR-TIME SKETCH. GENERAL LEE IN THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN. BY CHARLES S. TENABLE, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, C. S. A., OP GENERAL LEE S Dx UNIFORM OF THE MARYLANDGUARD, C. S. A. iURING the winter of 1863-64General Lees headquarterswere near Orange Court were marked by the samebare simplicity and absence ofmilitary form and display whichalways characterized or four tents of ordinarysize, situated on the steep hill-side, m
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . •--20 WAITING FOR HIS BREAKFAST. FROM A WAR-TIME SKETCH. GENERAL LEE IN THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN. BY CHARLES S. TENABLE, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, C. S. A., OP GENERAL LEE S Dx UNIFORM OF THE MARYLANDGUARD, C. S. A. iURING the winter of 1863-64General Lees headquarterswere near Orange Court were marked by the samebare simplicity and absence ofmilitary form and display whichalways characterized or four tents of ordinarysize, situated on the steep hill-side, made the winter home ofhimself and his personal was without sentinels orguards. He used during thewinter every exertion for fill-ing up the thin ranks of hisarmy and for obtaining the nec-essary supplies for his were times in which thesituation seemed to be criticalin regard to the supplies of meat werebrought mainly from the Statessouth of Virginia, and on some days the Army ofNorthern Virginia had not more than twenty-fourhours rations ahead. On one occasion the generalreceived by mail an anonymous communicationfrom a private soldier containing a very small sliceof salt pork, carefully packed between two oakchips, and accompanied by a letter sa
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