. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. ^ any individual,in my knowledge, pendingthe campaign. The featalluded to was Lees cross-ing, one dark and stormynight, the Pedregal, a fieldof volcanic rock, pathless,precipitous, difficult tocrosseven in daylight. The pur-pose of this daring nightmarch was to communicatewith General Scott that. I,EE AS A CADET AT WEST POINT IN 1S54. a simultaneous attack might be made at daybreak by both wingsof the American army. An officer, who was present, has writtenthus of the attempt: When we remember that Captain Lee leftthe council ch
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. ^ any individual,in my knowledge, pendingthe campaign. The featalluded to was Lees cross-ing, one dark and stormynight, the Pedregal, a fieldof volcanic rock, pathless,precipitous, difficult tocrosseven in daylight. The pur-pose of this daring nightmarch was to communicatewith General Scott that. I,EE AS A CADET AT WEST POINT IN 1S54. a simultaneous attack might be made at daybreak by both wingsof the American army. An officer, who was present, has writtenthus of the attempt: When we remember that Captain Lee leftthe council chamber at Contreras to pass over miles of such groundas I have described, in a pitch-dark night, without light or com-pany, with the additional danger of wandering either to the right or25 386 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE, left and thus falling into the hands of Valencia or Santa Anna,the risk of being met by some of the straggling bands of Mexicans,which we had seen in the Pedregal, with no guide but the windas it drove the cold rain in torrents against his face, or an occasionalflash of lightning to give him a momentary glimpse of the countryaround him, it will be acknowledged that General Scott, consideringthe object for which this was done, the manner of doing it, andthe results, has characterized this deed of devotion by the onlyterms, exalted as they a
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