This man says he s related to Robert E Lee There s no evidence
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drainage ditch, then the attacking ranks had to cross more open ground to confront a sunken road which formed a perfect four-foot trench for confederate infantry. behind the sunken road, marie s height rose precipitously studded with artillery and more infantry. the assault disintegrated into murder. lee saw the enemy founder and saw his own men leap from their cover and chase their fleeing foes. it is well that war is so terrible he said we should grow too fond of it. again and again the federals charged and each time they died and recoiled. general, lee said to longstreet, who was by his side, they are massing very heavily and will break your line, i m afraid. general, longstreet responded, if you put every man now on the other side of the potomac on that field to approach me over the same line and give me plenty of ammunition, i will kill them all before they reach me. and he did. this is what lee did in 1862. he wrote in what would qualify as a christmas letter to his wif
another harry lee and who was there and this might be too long a story, but they had a child who fell from some steps and died and his wife became inconsolable and took some consoling in drugs and in the process but before that and a jolly party atmosphere there for stratford so the wife s sister came and lived with them. she was an orphan and so she went there and she and light horse harry had a relationship that may not have resulted in a child and she finally went to the court and said she wanted to get out from under light horse harry as her guardian because he s wasting that money and it caused a scandal and provoked harry to leave. he went to the hermitage, actually and worked for jackson s, the federalist working for andrew jackson, the crazy populist democrat, but he ll do that, you know. he ll go that far and eventually he ll go to france and have a biography of napoleon and there he died but his wife became a very pitiful figure, pretty dependent upon drugs and
12-15, 12th through the 15th of 1862. and he s going to fall upon mcclellan s flank with 45,000 troops. and then he s going to bring jackson in from the valley with 20,000 more to attack mcclellan s rear. here is this guy, 200 soldiers at harper s ferry and now he s commanding, add all that up. 25,000, 47,000, 20,000, 92,000 people. and, guy goby god, it worked, f limited perspective anyway. mcclellan was halted, embarrassed and overrun, at least on his flank at gaines mill and lost his nerve and called for a change of base, which sounded like a skedaddle. a withdrawal to the james river, and lee followed. in his general order, he wrote on thursday, june 26th, the powerful and thoroughly equipped army of the enemy was entrenched in works vast and extent and most formidable in character within the sight of our capital. today the remains of that confident and threatening host lie upon the banks of the james river, 30 miles that s a little bit more like 23, i think. 30 miles
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