The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-12

..COU.I}' ESTES
How They We're Shown at.
Appomatto G. G, H. II. \.
A5MA II ( TO OLD MEXICO Il, ! .|'(: ,.
rT-alk Of a Plan to unite Lees and Grants s
Men and March Them to Mexico
NJ r Readable Incidents ofthe War
Personals Etc. 5t

iSSsi. The following letter was written by the
/, gallant Colonel Haskell, of South Caro-
flina to a friend in Richmond, and is OF
s$heep interest. as itrclates some hitherto
unpublished incidents Of tho surrender,
including an account Of the camp talk
81 q bout Grant and Lees menuniting under e
q lee. and marching TO Mexico to exnel
h1aximillian. We quote:
g83$ c Columbia, S. c., April 3. 1903.
Il A1y Dear. - -; jssx III 33s:.
"a fter our talk at tile club in New S orls
4 ma my promise 10 write you the Incident
u Of which 4 spoke tto you. / was until a
4 few4days ago, too Sick to do anything.
4 and then 1t took all my strength to travei
/ home. arrived last evening
AT the surrender at AppomattoX or
General Lee S army was appointed on
1.-THE commission to arrange details as q
Representative Of the artillery. and as
y such 4 went with Longstreet, who was
the head or our commission, to the Nc
Lane House, where we met Grant and
'#Gibbon, the head Of their commissions and
Il many other officers was turned over
Il to General jill. Bartleet,,-who was then
Il commanding Griffin's Division of the
firth Corps, Griffin having succeeded
n Warren q few rdays before. was a
greut deal In their lines in the performs
8# ;.nce of my duties, and was greatly i'm
pressed with the kindly feeling shown
ss to all of us by the Union soldiers-it was
Il rather ostentatious!y shown, but think
evidently well meant. i noticed wherever
we rode that the guard was turned out
and arms presented. etc, Wherever we
N stopped my orderlies were very cordial
# treated BY the Union soldiers, who,
q without a single exception. would greet
them with the remark: IAN right, boys
we will all get together now and go to
& Mexico under Uncle Bob and clean out
,{ the French" =
'uNCLE BOB" s.
I newer a single time heard any one but
X General Lee suggested, and remember be-
n ing very much amused at one of my or
al ilerlies rcsentlug violently the Union men
~ speaking oftshm Hssr"Unce Bob and
a Saying: "You3 have got nothing to do with
& him; we don't call him Uncle Bob; we
Ss call him General Lee; you got no right
VI to be calling him Uncle Fob and l won't
55g-tand it,"
Ss5 u was so Impressed with this, which
si peemcd to be the universal sentiment,
( that have never forgotten It, though ]
y have made 1t rather a rule not to talk
much and never Ii writa.about Incidents
B of the war. Ifcer at this time especial
by that it is encumbent upon every sol
4 nier Of General Lees to miss no chance
ITO bear testimony to him--the greatest
character In American history; especially
i; an 8yiew of the insolent and absurd out
cry that is being made against Vlrglnla's
II putting his statute Mt the Capitol.
After the surrender he became a ctl.
u zen of tho United States--ard there was
none more oyal-,Yirglnia resumed hel
place as one Of the States of the Union
n and certainly her right to say who shoult
4 be5her representative IN the Natlonn
Il Hall. ] would never think Of Virgins
Il as I do IL she hestnted an Instant In hel
choice.
4 AFTER THE WAR.
Gen. Lee never showed himself as grca
d as The did afterfthe wnr, when he LIVED
I In anything hut affuence, supporting
himself by his daily work as teacher
and serving his country by trying t