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644 “it may be necessary to abandon”: Ibid., 355.

644 Lee was already thinking: Ibid.

645 “You must consider the question”: Ibid., 348.

645 Just as Lee was considering: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 149.

645 “serenaded the Meade home”: Ibid., 142.

645 “My precious little Agnes”: Ibid.

645 “draw out by his left”: Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, 356.

645 “The appearance of a steady”: Ibid., 357.

645 he noted that his ability: Ibid.

646 An even more serious problem: Ibid., 359.

646 On February 24, in a long letter: Ibid.

646 Deserters usually took: Ibid., 360.

646 “sustain even our small force”: Ibid., 362.

646 At 4 a.m. on April 2: Fuller, Grant and Lee, 239.

647 Whether or not Mrs. Lee: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 143.

647 “I see no prospect”: Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, 364.

647 Davis rose from his pew: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 144.

647 “Through the open casements”: Ibid., 145.

647 By the middle of the afternoon: Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, 366.

648 Mrs. Lee watched the scene: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 146.

649 Lee’s intention had been to concentrate: Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, 367.

649 “My God!” Lee exclaimed: Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 1935), Vol. 4, 84.

650 The central panel of the Hoffbauer murals: Keith D. Dickson, Sustaining Southern Identity: Douglas Southall Freeman and Memory in the Modern South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011), xiv.

650 Lee did not yet know the worst: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 4, 86.

652 “competent, wise, forbearing”: William Garrett Piston, Marked in Bronze: James Longstreet and Southern History (New York: De Capo, 1998), 219.

652 “He was there to back Lee up”: Jeffrey Wert, General James Longstreet: The Confederacy’s Most Controversial Soldier (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993), 401.

653 Those who saw him: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 4, 109.

655 Lee’s father had been present: Charles Marshall, An Aide-de-Camp of Lee (Boston: Little Brown, 1927), 258.

657 His “ambulance and his headquarters”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 4, 114.

658 “If I am to be General Grant’s prisoner”: Reverend John William Jones, Personal Reminiscences of General Robert E. Lee (New York: D. Appleton, 1874), 147.

659 “Tell General Lee I have fought”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 4, 120.

659 “Then there is nothing left me to do”: Ibid.

659 “hard things to say of us”: Ibid., 121.

659 “Then your situation”: James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960), 538.

660 Alexander was in favor: Edward Porter Alexander, Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander, Gary W. Gallagher, ed., (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1898), 531–33.

661 “You have killed your beautiful horse”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 126.

663 Colonel Taylor “had no heart”: Ibid., 133.

664 “talked in the most friendly”: Marshall, An Aide-de-Camp of Lee, 269.

665 Another observer wrote: Reverend J. William Jones, Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee: Soldier and Man (New York: Neale, 1906), 375.

666 Grant and Lee continued to chat: Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, 736.

666 Parker made a few small corrections: This represents a combination of the accounts of Douglas Southall Freeman, Marshall, General Grant, and Brigadier General Horace Porter of Grant’s staff. Marshall, Grant, and Porter were close to Lee in the small room during the surrender.

669 The McLean house turned out to contain: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, 480.

CHAPTER 12 Apotheosis—1865–1870

671 There was a short period of discomposure: Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography, (New York: Scribner, 1934), Vol. 3, 145–46.

672 The two generals talked: Ulysses Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (New York: Charles L. Webster, 1894), 744.

673 “His steed was bespattered”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 161.

674 “The sorrows of the South”: Ibid., 194.

675 Their house had been rented: Reverend J. William Jones, Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee: Soldier and Man (New York: Neale, 1906), 383.

675 Once Lee had surrendered: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 205.

677 In Lee’s case: Ibid., 206–7.

677 “we must expect procrastination”: Ibid., 207.

678 Once he returned to Richmond: Ibid., 209–10.

679 As for “the girls”: Mary P. Coulling, The Lee Girls (Winston-Salem, N.C.: Blair, 1987), 152.

679 They were unlikely to find: Ibid., 153.

680 Lee rose from the table: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 211.

680 “I have always observed”: Ibid., 199.

680 “My own opinion”: Reports of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, 39th Congress, Part 2 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1866), 7, 121, 126.

682 After a week of comfortable living: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 154.

682 “the people of the South”: Ibid., 156.

682 Colonel Christian mentioned: Ibid., 156–57.

683 “He prefers that way”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 226.

684 Mrs. Brittania Peter Kinnon: Ibid., 160.