Gen. Lee has now been ordered South for the defense of Charleston
and Savannah, and those cities are safe! Give a great man a field worthy of his
powers, and he can demonstrate the extent of his abilities; but dwarf him in an
insignificant position, and the veriest fool will look upon him with contempt.
Gen. Lee in the streets here bore the aspect of a discontented man, for he saw
that everything was going wrong; but now his eye flashes with zeal and hope.
Give him time and opportunity, and he will hurl back the invader from his
native land; yes, and he will commend the chalice of invasion to the lips of the
North; but not this year — it is too late for that.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the
Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 96
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