Savannah, Georgia, February
23, 1862.
The news from Tennessee and North Carolina is not at all
cheering. Disasters seem to be thickening around us. It calls for renewed
energies and redoubled strength on our part. I fear our soldiers have not
realized the necessity of endurance and labor, and that it is better to
sacrifice themselves for our cause. God, I hope, will shield us and give us
success. I hear the enemy is progressing slowly in his designs. His gunboats
are pushing up all the creeks and marshes to the Savannah, and have obtained a
position so near the river as to shell the steamers navigating it. I am engaged
in constructing a line of defense at Fort Jackson which, if time permits and
guns can be obtained, I hope will keep them out.
SOURCE: John William Jones, Life and Letters of
Robert Edward Lee: Soldier and Man, p. 159
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