Thursday, January 30, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, November 21, 1863

CAMP, November 21, 1863.

I see by the papers that our son has been sent to Fort Lafayette. Any place would be better than Fort Monroe with Butler in command. His long confinement is very grievous to me, yet it may all turn out for the best.

SOURCE: John William Jones, Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee: Soldier and Man, p. 295

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