From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America

CHAPTER XLIV.

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POST-BELLUM PENDANT.

Old Friends and their Kindness--General Grant--His Characteristic Letter of Introduction to President Johnson--In Business in New Orleans--Political Unfriendliness--Cause of Criticism of Military Career--Appointed Surveyor of Customs-- The Old Nurse 632

APPENDIX.

Letters of General Robert E. Lee and General Longstreet 639

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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General James Longstreet (1895) _Frontispiece._

Colonel John B. Richardson 37

Colonel T. J. Goree 47

General J. E. B. Stuart 60

General R. E. Lee 112

General Thomas J. Jackson 166

Battle at Thoroughfare Gap 174

Defeat of the Federal Troops by Longstreet's Corps (Second Manassas) 188

General Lafayette McLaws 231

Colonel John W. Fairfax 250

The Battle of Antietam (Burnside's Bridge) 263

General James Longstreet (1862) 290

The Battle of Fredericksburg (from the Battery on Lee's Hill) 308

Colonel Osmun Latrobe 316

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Lyon Fremantle 343

The Confederate Scout Harrison 346

Gettysburg (Second Day's Battle) 374

General E. P. Alexander 388

General George E. Pickett 392

William Blake 408

Retreat from Gettysburg (Accident during the Night-Crossing of the Potomac on a Pontoon Bridge) 430

Colonel R. J. Moses 451

Battle of Chickamauga (Confederates flanking the Union Forces) 454

The Assault on Fort Sanders, Knoxville 506

General G. M. Sorrel 518

The Wounding of General Longstreet (Battle of the Wilderness) 564

Colonel Erasmus Taylor 572

General Charles W. Field 577

The Last Line of Battle (Appomattox) 624

Fac-simile of Letter from General R. E. Lee 638

LIST OF MAPS.

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First Battle of Bull Run 42

Battle of Seven Pines 96

Battle of Mechanicsville 124

Battle of Malvern Hill 142

Second Battle of Bull Run (Opening) 186

Second Battle of Bull Run (Nightfall) 196

Battle of Sharpsburg 246

Battle of Fredericksburg 298

Strategic Map of the Theatre of War, May, 1863 328

Battle of Gettysburg 362

Position of Confederate First Corps, Gettysburg, Third Day 399

Battle of Chickamauga 446

Confederates around Chattanooga 462

Siege of Knoxville 498

Battle of the Wilderness 556

Battle of Five Forks 601

FROM MANASSAS TO APPOMATTOX.