CAMP, PETERSBURG, June
30, 1864.
I was very glad to receive your letter yesterday, and to
hear that you are better. I trust you will continue to improve and soon be as
well as usual. God grant that you may be entirely restored in his own good
time! Do you recollect what a happy day thirty-three years ago this was? How
many hopes and pleasures it gave birth to! God has been very merciful and kind
to us, and how thankless and sinful I have been! I pray that He may continue
His mercies and blessings to us and give us a little peace and rest together in
this world, and finally gather us and all He has given us around His throne in
the world to come. The President has just arrived, and I must bring my letter to
a close. God bless you all.
SOURCE: John William Jones, Life and Letters of
Robert Edward Lee: Soldier and Man, p. 318
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