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Title: Wearing of the gray; being personal portraits, scenes and adventures of the war
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Confederate
Publisher: New York, E.B. Treat & Co. Baltimore, J.S. Morrow, (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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was killed while gallantly leading his men. Such was the soldierly ending of this brave young Virginian. He had been married only a few weeks to a young lady of rare beauty, and life seemed to open for him all flowers and 561* WEARING OF THE GRAY. sunshine; but the thunderbolt had struck him; his brave blood went to swell that great torrent poured out by the gallantest souls of the South. This hasty sketch—beginning with jests, and ending in some-thing like tears—has aimed, in part, to record that presentiment which the young soldier seemed to have of his approaching fate. Wholly incredulous as the writer is of such warnings,it is impossible for him to banish from his mind the fancy that something conveyed to the young soldier a premonition of the coming event. But lie did his duty all the same, dying in harness like a good soldier of the South. The lapse of twenty pages after 5G4 is accounted for by omitting to number the illustrations in their order. See list of illustrations >
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V. LEES LAST BATTLES. i. General Lees retreat from Petersburg will rank among the most remarkable events of history. As every circumstance connected with it will prove interesting hereafter, when the full history of this period comes to be written, I propose to record some particulars which came under my observation; and especially to describe the bearing of the illustrious Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate forces while passing through this tremendous ordeal. An adequate record of this brief and fiery drama—played from the first to the last scene in a few April days—would involve the question of General Lees soldiership. This question I have neither time nor space to discuss; but I am much mistaken if a simple statement will not set at rest for ever those imputations which have been cast, since the surrender,upon Lees military judgment, by ignorant or stupid persons throughout the country. The facts ought to be placed on record. If General Lee continued, of his own choice, to occupya

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