Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee

Letters to Mrs. Lee from Richmond and Savannah--From Brandon--Agnes Lee’s account of her father’s greetings from old friends and old soldiers--Wilmington and Norfolk do him hono...

Resigns from Colonelcy of First United States Cavalry--Motives for this step--Chosen to command Virginia forces--Anxiety about his wife, family, and possessions--Chief advisor t...

From Camp on Sewell’s Mountain--Quotation from Colonel Taylor’s book--From Professor Wm. P. Trent--From Mr. Davis’s Memorial Address--Defense of Southern ports--Christmas, 1861-...

Volunteer in Rockbridge Artillery--“Four Years with General Lee” quoted--Meeting between father and son--Personal characteristics of the General--Death of his daughter Annie--Hi...

Goes to Warm Springs for rheumatism--Her daughter Mildred takes typhoid there--Removes to Hot Springs--Her husband’s devotion--Visit of Fitzhugh and bride to Lexington--Miss Jon...

Judged by what he says of himself, my father’s trip South did him no permanent good. The rest and change, the meeting with many old friends, the great love and kindness shown hi...

During this winter, which was a very severe one, the sufferings of General Lee’s soldiers on account of insufficient shelter and clothing, the scant rations for man and beast, t...

The General believes in the enforcement of law and order--His moral influence in the college--Playful humour shown in his letters--His opinion of negro labour--Mr. Davis’s trial...

Patriotic motives for acceptance of trust--Condition of college--The General’s arrival at Lexington--He prepares for the removal of his family to that city--Advice to Robert Jun...

Photographs and autographs in demand--The General’s interest in young people--His happy home life--Labours at Washington College--He gains financial aid for it--Worsley’s transl...

On my father’s return to Lexington the new house was ready. It adjoined the one he had been occupying, so the distance was not great and the transfer was easily accomplished. It...

The college exercises were resumed in the last weeks of September. My mother and sisters were all back at home. The President’s work, now more in hand, began to show results. Th...

My father, being very anxious that I should build a good house on my farm, had agreed to supply the necessary means, and was interested in my plans and estimates. In a letter of...

The year 1865 had now commenced. The strength of that thin gray line, drawn out to less than one thousand men to the mile, which had repulsed every attempt of the enemy to break...

His intention to write the history of his Virginia campaigns--Called before a committee of Congress--Preaches patience and silence in the South--Shuns controversy and publicity-...

The General writes to his sons--To his wife at Rockbridge Baths--He joins her there about once a week--Distinguished and undistinguished callers at his Lexington home--He advoca...

An incident about “Traveller”--The General’s love for children--His friendship with Ex-President Davis--A ride with his daughter to the Peaks of Otter--Mildred Lee’s narrative--...

Lee’s conception of the part--His influence exerted toward the restoration of Virginia--He visits old friends throughout the country--Receives offers of positions--Compares note...

The Lee family in Richmond--The General’s letters to them from Camps Rappahannock and Rapidan--Death of Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee--Preparations to meet General Grant--The Wilderness--Sp...

Battle of Cold Harbour--Siege of Petersburg--The General intrusts a mission to his son Robert--Battle of the Crater--Grant crosses the James River--General Long’s pen-picture of...

The General declines lucrative positions in New York and Atlanta--He suffers from an obstinate cold--Local gossip--He is advised to go South in the spring of 1870--Desires to vi...

My recollection of my father as Superintendent of the West Point Military Academy is much more distinct. He lived in the house which is still occupied by the Superintendent. It...

“My Precious Daughter: Your letter to your mother gave us the satisfactory information of your continued good health, for I feared that your long silence had been caused by indi...

The following is the last letter that I can find written by my father to my mother. He was back in Lexington early in September, and was never separated from her again while he...

Captain Lee, of the Engineers, a hero to his child--The family pets--Home from the Mexican War--Three years in Baltimore--Superintendent of the West Point Military Academy--Lieu...

Letters to Mildred Lee--To Robert--To Fitzhugh--Interviewed by Swinton, historian of the Army of the Potomac--Improvement in grounds and buildings of Washington College--Punctua...

Engineers, a hero to his child--The family pets--Home from the Mexican War--Three years in Baltimore--Superintendent of the West Point Military Academy--Lieutenant-Colonel of Se...

love for children--His friendship with Ex-President Davis--A ride with his daughter to the Peaks of Otter--Mildred Lee’s narrative--Mrs. Lee at the White Sulphur Springs--The gr...

Mountain--Quotation from Colonel Taylor’s book--From Professor Wm. P. Trent--From Mr. Davis’s Memorial Address--Defense of Southern ports--Christmas, 1861--The General visits hi...

Artillery--“Four Years with General Lee” quoted--Meeting between father and son--Personal characteristics of the General--Death of his daughter Annie--His son Robert raised from...

Harbour--Siege of Petersburg--The General intrusts a mission to his son Robert--Battle of the Crater--Grant crosses the James River--General Long’s pen-picture of Lee--Knitting...

Fitzhugh--Interviewed by Swinton, historian of the Army of the Potomac--Improvement in grounds and buildings of Washington College--Punctuality a prominent trait of its Presiden...

daughter Mildred takes typhoid there--Removes to Hot Springs--Her husband’s devotion--Visit of Fitzhugh and bride to Lexington--Miss Jones, a would-be benefactor of Washington C...

exerted toward the restoration of Virginia--He visits old friends throughout the country--Receives offers of positions--Compares notes with the Union General Hunter--Longs for a...

United States Cavalry--Motives for this step--Chosen to command Virginia forces--Anxiety about his wife, family, and possessions--Chief advisor to President Davis--Battle of Man...

acceptance of trust--Condition of college--The General’s arrival at Lexington--He prepares for the removal of his family to that city--Advice to Robert Junior--Trip to “Bremo” o...