Barrycdog
Major
- Joined
- Jan 6, 2013
- Location
- Buford, Georgia
Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.
What is your favorite quote?
What is your favorite quote?
Give a great deal of love to your dear mother, and kiss your sisters for me. Tell them they must keep well, not talk too much, and go to bed early.
"I surrender."
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm
Was he actually quoted as saying "I surrender", as most of it was in writing and he was surrendering the Army of Northern Virginia?
I was paraphrasing.
"Did you go off like a firecracker?" -- R. E. Lee to Markie Williams
I guess Lee figured why the Texas Brigade was so tough!From a letter he wrote in August, 1856, while stationed at Ringgold Barracks, near present day Rio Grande City:
"The sun was fiery hot and the atmosphere like a blast from a hot air furnace, the water salt. Every branch and leaf in this country, nearly, are armed with a point and seem to poison the flesh. What a blessing the children are not here! They would be ruined."
----- Robert E. Lee in a letter to his wife, August 25th, 1856
And we know what at least one Union general thought of Texas, so.....