April 2, 1864.
Your note with the socks arrived last evening. I have sent
them to the Stonewall brigade; they number all right — thirty pairs. Including
this last parcel of thirty pairs, I have sent to that brigade two hundred and
sixty-three pairs. Still, there are about one hundred and forty whose homes are
within the enemy's lines and who are without socks. I shall continue to furnish
them till all are supplied. Tell the young women to work hard for the brave
Stonewallers.
SOURCE: John William Jones, Life and Letters of
Robert Edward Lee: Soldier and Man, p. 300
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