Thursday, January 9, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, September 18, 1863

Camp Near Orange Court House, September 18, 1863

The enemy state that they have heard of a great reduction in our forces here, and are now going to drive us back to Richmond. I trust they will not succeed. But our hope and refuge is in our merciful Father in heaven.

SOURCE: John William Jones, Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee: Soldier and Man, p. 285

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