169 “We must not for our own pleasure”: Robert E. Lee to Mary Lee, January 2, 1851, quoted in Emory Thomas, Robert E. Lee (New York: Norton, 1995), 148.
169 Baltimore was full of Lee: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 309.
169 The Lees participated: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 10.
169 Lee had in fact gone to a good deaclass="underline" Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 309.
169 Here, at last, was an area: Ibid.
169 At first his grades: Ibid., 310.
170 “deeply humiliated”: Ibid.
170 Lee wrote to his son, “Dearest Mr. Boo”: New York Times, April 14, 1918, sec. VII, 5.
171 “We came home on a Wednesday”: Robert E. Lee to G.W. C. Lee, December 28, 1851, Jones, Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 76–77.
172 “Nothing was needed to assure”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 314.
173 “I learn with much regret”: Henry Alexander White, Robert E. Lee (New York: Greenwood, 1969), 48.
174 “to receive a packet of socks”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 321.
175 “It was built of stone”: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 11–12.
175 A letter he wrote to “My Precious Annie”: Ibid., 15.
176 The cadets, seeing Lee: Ibid., 13.
178 Lee was spared any such trouble: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 333.
178 Lee may have wished: Ibid., 334.
179 “I fear the Genl”: Robert E. Lee to Markie, June 29, 1854, quoted in Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 158.
179 The joke here: Allan Peskin, Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2003), 140–1.
181 “What is the excuse”: William Montgomery Meigs, The Life of Thomas Hart Benton (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1904), 429.
182 He had called Mrs. Custis “Mother”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 328.
183 “May God give you strength”: Lee, Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 18–19.
183 It is surely no accident: Paul Nagel, The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 252.
184 “inculcating those principles”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 325.
184 “You must not infer”: Ibid., 341.
184 Lee considered discharging cadets: Ibid., 344, n24.
184 His pride in inspecting the first graduating class: Ibid., 329.
184 She brought several of the familiar: Mary P. Coulling, The Lee Girls (Winston-Salem, N.C.: Blair, 1987), 40.
185 The grounds and gardens: Ibid., 34.
185 The board of visitors: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 347.
186 Again and again small detachments: Ibid., 348–49.
186 “with his dying breath”: Ibid., 350.
187 Lee gained nothing: Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 159.
188 The sheer tedium: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 362.
189 “These people give a world”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 364.
189 “Yesterday I returned”: Ibid.
191 “my feelings for my country”: Robert E. Lee to Mary Lee, August 4, 1856, Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 367.
191 “I saw nothing”: Ibid.
191 Mildred, who was four years younger: Nagel, The Lees of Virginia, 233.
191 That Edward Childe: Ibid., 234.
191 “The news came to me”: Robert E. Lee to Mary Lee, August 11, 1856, Jones, Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 80.
194 “I was much pleased”: Robert E. Lee to Mary Lee, December 27, 1856, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond.
196 “I have been out four days”: Robert E. Lee to Mary Lee, June 29, 1857, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond.
197 “In the day, the houses”: Robert E. Lee to Annie Lee, August 8, 1857, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond.
197 “adds more than years”: Nagel, The Lees of Virginia, 258.
198 “I can see that”: Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 174, quoting a letter from Robert E. Lee to A. S. Johnston, Howard-Tilton Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
199 He had already had the thankless task: Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 164.
199 Each of these places: Ibid., 175.
200 “I can see little prospect”: Pryor, Reading the Man, 262.
201 Custis generously sent his father: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 384.
203 Slaves were no longer needed: Lisa Kraus, John Bedell, and Charles LeeDecker, “Joseph Bruin and the Slave Trade,” June 2007, 1–5, 17.
204 “the general impression”: Pryor, Reading the Man, 260.
205 The Lees themselves complained: Ibid., 268.
206 “were apprehended and thrown into prison”: Pryor, Reading the Man, 260.
208 Although these letters: Robert E. Lee to Custis Lee, July 2, 1859, Jones, Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 102.
208 After Norris’s account appeared: Pryor, Reading the Man, 272; Robert E. Lee to E. S. Quirk, April 13, 1866, quoted in Michael Fellman, The Making of Robert E. Lee (New York: Random House, 2000), 67.
209 far from being unusuaclass="underline" Pryor, Reading the Man, 273.
209 “by the French Minister at Washington”: Ibid., 261.
210 His military career: Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography, Vol. 1, 393.
210 He left Arlington: Ibid., 405.
CHAPTER 6 1861—“The Thunder of the Captains and the Shouting”
211 “The thunder of the captains”: Job 39:25.
211 “He was a United States officer”: Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 1934), Vol. 1, 404.
212 “gain the affection of your people”: Emory Thomas, Robert E. Lee (New York: Norton, 1995), 178.
213 From San Antonio: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 388.
213 His chief concern: Ibid., 405.
213 Another of Lee’s concerns: Ibid., 407.
214 Lee was perfectly willing: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 407.
214 “For the attainment of this object”: Reverend J. William Jones, Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee: Soldier and Man (New York: Neale, 1906), 112.
214 “A divided heart”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 411.
215 “You know I was very much”: Robert E. Lee to Annie Lee, August 27, 1860, quoted in Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 184
215 This was not exactly a midlife crisis: Ibid., 185.
215 “leave politics to the politicians”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 412.
215 Many of Lee’s own officers: Ibid., 413.
216 “Politicians,” Lee concluded: Robert E. Lee to Major Van Dorn, July 3, 1860, Debutts-Ely Collection, Library of Congress.
217 Four days after Lincoln’s election: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 413.
217 “Let me tell you”: Wikipedia, “Sam Houston,” 5.
217 “I hope, however, the wisdom”: Robert E. Lee to Custis Lee, December 14, 1860, Jones, Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 118–19.
219 “hold on to specie”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 417.
219 “to suffer these Views”: Ibid., 418.
220 “a man’s first allegiance”: Ibid.
220 replied abruptly: Ibid.
221 “I will not, however”: Robert E. Lee in letter home, January 23, 1861, Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 420.
221 To Custis, he wrote almost in despair: Jones, Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 120–1.
221 On January 26 Louisiana seceded: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 426.
222 Rightly assuming that he would: Ibid., 425.
222 “On the right of the entrance”: Robert E. Lee to Agnes Lee, August 4, 1856, Debutts-Ely Collection, Library of Congress.
223 “I cannot be moved”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 429.
224 Though travel was excruciatingly difficult: Mary P. Coulling, The Lee Girls (Winston-Salem, N.C.: Blair, 1987), 76.
224 “I am told”: Ibid.
224 she returned at the end of the summer: Ibid., 77.
224 She was appalled: Ibid., 78.
224 Even when Mary Lee: Ibid., 80.
224 As state after state: Jones, Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 119–21.
225 He was determined to remain: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 90.
225 Mary Chesnut: C. Vann Woodward, ed., Mary Chesnut’s Civil War (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1981), 26.
226 On April 4: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 434.
226 “Now they have intercepted”: Woodward, Mary Chestnut’s Civil War, 45.