. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. 376 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE, Courthouse, findiug his rations were not there, as he had provided, andthat there was no possible way of feeding his men or giving forage tohis horses—the country not affording such—he had only one course,and that was to surrender his army. Had General Lee obtainedprovisions at Amelia Courthouse, there would have been no troublein the world about his going on and meeting Johnston and unitingthe two armies. They could easily, when united, have drawn Grantand Sherman into the interior, where these t
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. 376 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE, Courthouse, findiug his rations were not there, as he had provided, andthat there was no possible way of feeding his men or giving forage tohis horses—the country not affording such—he had only one course,and that was to surrender his army. Had General Lee obtainedprovisions at Amelia Courthouse, there would have been no troublein the world about his going on and meeting Johnston and unitingthe two armies. They could easily, when united, have drawn Grantand Sherman into the interior, where these two hostile armies couldnot have been fed, neither could they have gotten supplies of am-munition, and by a few weeks of skirmishing and small battling. THE LEE MAUSOLEUM. they could have been deprived of means of either offensive ordefensive war, and in all probability the map of the world as it isto-day would have been changed. General Lee was a most kind, humane and generous man. WhenGrant sent Sheridan to the rear of General Lee, in May, 1864, whilstthe battle of the Wilderness was going on, Sheridan succeeded indestroying a great many supplies which were being sent up fromRichmond to General Lees army, and there were great fears in thearmy of scant rations and even starvation. Whilst this was causinga great deal of anxiety and some excitement in the army, General SOLDIER, CITIZEN AND CHRISTIAN PATRIOT. 377 Lee sent for General Hampton, who had been left behind by Stuartand who commanded all the cavalry then with General Lee, to conferwith him and give him some instructions in reference to his duties aschief of cavalry, and when General Hampton went to General Leehe took me with him. We reached his quarters near SpottsylvaniaCourt
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