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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The true story of the capture of Jefferson Davis. (search)
hiefly with events which occurred afterward. I was not present at the Cabinet meeting on the first Sunday in April, 1865, when the telegram was received from General Lee announcing that his lines had been broken at Petersburg. I had that day attended service at a church to which I was not in the habit of going, and in consequencuation, and was then in North Carolina. This candid soldier further says: It is stated, upon what appears to be good authority, that Davis had many weeks before Lee's catastrophe made the most careful and exacting preparations for his escape, discussing the matter fully with his Cabinet in profound secrecy, and deciding that, , the Shenandoah should be ordered to cruise off the coast of Florida, to take the fugitives on board. These orders were sent to the rebel cruiser many days before Lee's lines were broken. Who this good authority is we are left to conjecture; but General Wilson himself is responsible for the assertion that these orders were sen
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Reply to General Longstreet's Second paper. (search)
Will Longstreet never begin ? Is it to be wondered that General Lee had come to the conclusion that Longstreet was very slowe Times, says that General Jackson did not pursue, while General Lee says: Their repeated efforts to rally were unavailing, aecond Manassas, to show the official relations between. General Lee and himself, General Longstreet gives two letters, one from Colonel Taylor and the other from General Lee, to show the kindly personal relations that existed between himself and GenGeneral Lee and his staff, a matter which no one will pretend to controvert, but which all will say ought to have prevented Gene, that, while General Longstreet has given a letter from General Lee to him, written since the war, to show their kindly perse other side, we have General Pendleton's statement that General Lee told him, on the night of the first, that he had given torder for Longstreet to attack at sunrise next morning. General Lee also said to the gentleman referred to by General Fitz L