5fish
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The following quote is form Rev. William Mack Lee. He was Robert E. Lee's personal servant(slave) before, during and after the war.
At the close of the struggle, General Lee said to General Grant: "Grant, you didn't whip me, you just overpowered me, I surrender this day 8,000 men; I do not surrender them to you, I surrender on conditions; it shall not go down in history I surrendered the Northern Confederate Army of Virginia to you. It shall go down in history I surrendered on conditions; you have ten men to my one; my men, too, are barefooted and hungry. If Joseph E. Johnston could have gotten to me three days ago I would have cut my way through and gone back into the mountains of North Carolina and would have given you a happy time." What these conditions were I do not know, but I know these were Marse Robert's words on the morning of the surrender: "I surrender to you on conditions."
\I think the quote has a little "Lost Cause" romanticism in those words but it make the point of my questions.
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Was Bobby Lee defeated by what he calls conditions or was he defeated by U.S. Grant's Generalship?
What was Lee and Johnston going to do if they had met up and made it the mountain of North Carolina? What plan?
A thought...
At the close of the struggle, General Lee said to General Grant: "Grant, you didn't whip me, you just overpowered me, I surrender this day 8,000 men; I do not surrender them to you, I surrender on conditions; it shall not go down in history I surrendered the Northern Confederate Army of Virginia to you. It shall go down in history I surrendered on conditions; you have ten men to my one; my men, too, are barefooted and hungry. If Joseph E. Johnston could have gotten to me three days ago I would have cut my way through and gone back into the mountains of North Carolina and would have given you a happy time." What these conditions were I do not know, but I know these were Marse Robert's words on the morning of the surrender: "I surrender to you on conditions."
\I think the quote has a little "Lost Cause" romanticism in those words but it make the point of my questions.
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Was Bobby Lee defeated by what he calls conditions or was he defeated by U.S. Grant's Generalship?
What was Lee and Johnston going to do if they had met up and made it the mountain of North Carolina? What plan?
A thought...