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Prepared by Brett Fishburne ([email protected])

Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
by Captain Robert E. Lee, His Son

Contents
Chapter I
Services in the United States Army Captain Lee, of the Engineers, a
hero to his child--The family pets--Home from the Mexican
War--Three years in Baltimore-- Superintendent of the West Point
Military Academy--Lieutenant- Colonel of Second Cavalry--Supresses
"John Brown Raid" at Harper's Ferry--Commands the Department of
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter II
The Confederate General Resigns from Colonelcy of First United
States Cavalry--Motives for this step--Chosen to command Virginia
forces--Anxiety about his wife, family, and possessions--Chief advisor
to President Davis-- Battle of Manassas--Military operations in West
Virginia--Letter to State Governor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Chapter III
Letters to Wife and Daughters From Camp on Sewell's
Mountain--Quotation from Colonel Taylor's book--From Professor Wm.
P. Trent--From Mr. Davis's Memorial Address--Defense of Southern
ports--Christmas, 1861--The General visits his father's
grave--Commands, under the President, all the armies of the
Confederate States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Chapter IV

Army Life of Robert the Younger Volunteer in Rockbridge
Artillery--"Four Years with General Lee" quoted--Meeting between
father and son--Personal characteristics of the General--Death of his
daughter Annie--His son Robert raised from the ranks--the horses,
"Grace Darling" and "Traveller"-- Fredricksburg--Freeing
slaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Chapter V
The Army of Northern Virginia The General's sympathy for his
suffering soldiers-- Chancellorsville--Death of "Stonewall"
Jackson--General Fitzhugh Lee wounded and captured--Escape of his
brother Robert-- Gettysburg--Religious revival--Infantry
review--Unsatisfactory commissariat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
91
Chapter VI
The Winter of 1863-4 The Lee family in Richmond--The General's
letters to them from Camps Rappahannock and Rapidan--Death of Mrs.
Fitzhugh Lee-- Preparations to meet General Grant--The
Wilderness--Spottsylvania Court House--Death of General
Stuart--General Lee's illness . . . 112
Chapter VII
Fronting the Army of the Potomac Battle of Cold Harbour--Siege of
Petersburg--The General intrusts a mission to his son Robert--Battle of
the Crater--Grant crosses the James River--General Long's pen-picture
of Lee--Knitting socks for the soldiers--A Christmas dinner--Incidents
of camp life . . . 128
Chapter VIII
The Surrender Fort Fisher captured--Lee made
Commander-in-Chief--Battle of Five Forks--The General's farewell to
his men--His reception in Richmond after the surrender--President

Davis hears the news-- Lee's visitors--His son Robert turns
farmer . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Chapter IX
A Private Citizen Lee's conception of the part--His influence exerted
toward the restoration of Virginia--He visits