GENERAL ORDERS No.
7.}
HDQRS. ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.,
January 22, 1864.
The commanding
general considers it due to the army to state that the temporary reduction of
rations has been caused by circumstances beyond the control of those charged
with its support. Its welfare and comfort are the objects of his constant and
earnest solicitude, and no effort has been spared to provide for its wants. It
is hoped that the exertions now being made will render the necessity of short
duration, but the history of the army has shown that the country can require no
sacrifice too great for its patriotic devotion.
Soldiers! You tread
with no unequal step the road by which your fathers marched through suffering,
privations, and blood to independence. Continue to emulate in the future, as
you have in the past, their valor in arms, their patient endurance of
hardships, their high resolve to be free, which no trial could shake, no bribe
seduce, no danger appall, and be assured that the just God who crowned their
efforts with success will, in His own good time, send down His blessing upon
yours.
R. E. LEE,
General.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official
Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 33 (Serial
No. 60), p. 1117; John Beauchamp
Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 136-7
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