Sunday, February 9, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, April 21, 1864

Orange County, April 21, 1864.

Your note with bag of socks reached me last evening. The number was correct — thirty-one pairs. I sent them to the Stonewall brigade, which is not yet supplied. Sixty-one pairs from the ladies in Fauquier have reached Charlottesville, and I hope will be distributed soon. Now that Miss Bettie Brander has come to the aid of my daughters, the supply will soon be increased.

SOURCE: John William Jones, Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee: Soldier and Man, p. 300

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