Sunday, February 23, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, June 26, 1864

CAMP, PETERSBURG, June 26, 1864.

I hope it is not as hot in Richmond as here. The men suffer a great deal in the trenches; and this condition of things, with the heat of the sun, nearly puts an end to military operations.

SOURCE: John William Jones, Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee: Soldier and Man, p. 318

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