Tuesday, February 25, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, July 10, 1864

July 10, 1864.

I was pleased, on the arrival of my little courier this morning, to hear that you were better, and that Custis Morgan1 was still among the missing. I think the farther he gets from you the better you will be. The shells have scattered the poor inhabitants in Petersburg, so that many of the churches are closed. Indeed, they have been visited by the enemy's shells. Mr. Piatt, pastor of the principal Episcopal church, had services at my headquarters today. The services were under the trees, and the discourse on the subject of salvation.
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1 A pet squirrel.

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

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