Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-07-22
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Gen. Hooker placed in command. In
May. 1863. Hooker marched on Rich
mond. having issued general order
in which he said that the Confederate
Army must either "imgloriously ny
or come out from behind its en-
trenchment, where certain destruc-
ton awaited it. n few days after
this announcement was made. Hook
er'S army was surprised by Lee and
Jackson simultaneously in front and
rear at charlottesville and over
whesmed fleeing in the greatest dis
order from the field. Lee then in
Vadei PENNSYLVANIA, where, at Get
tysbur&, after three days of bloody
conflict. unable 10 carry the Federal
position. he remained twenty-four
hours in liue OF battle with his army
In thei" immediate front inviting at
tack, and then Withdrew without in
terruptiOn into Virginia.
1t was in 1864, in the campaign
from The Wilderness to Petersburg,
that the star Of Lee reached its Ze-
NTH. Under his leadership the Army
or Northern Virginia, up to that time
III offensive warfare, had held every
Dattle-tield upon which it had
fou%ht, with the exception OF Gettys-
burg and Antietam, and upon these
fields, although it failed to beat the
army pitted against 1t, it stood in
battle array on each occasion for
twenty-four hours, was not attacked
and marched away unmolested.
lie was now TO show that in de-
fensivc fighting he was greater
master OF the art Of war than in his
offensive operations. Grant. with
the largest army ever marShallcd
upon this continent under single
commander, with unlimited resources
OF men and money, With the world
TO draw upon for all that was most
useful in destructive warfare. ad-
vanccd upon the army Of Lee, want
ing in everything but valor. and so
| decimatcd that. as Grant expressed
it. ''it had robbed the cradle and the
grave TO fiji the gaps between the
veterans that still survived. There
followed from May ,, 1854. in The
Wilderness, at SrOttsylvania Court
House, at Cold llarbor and the North
Anna, series OF conflicts so fright
! tul in their havoc that the history
Of this campaign might we'll be writ
ten in blood.
In the early spring OF 1863. after
nlne months Of persistent effort
Grant, with ll3,COn mon. we'll fed
. clad and armed. broke through the
imc defended by 7 ec's force OF 49,
900 veterans, half starved, ragged
and most OF them shoeless. Then
came the end at AppomattoX, where,
on April 9. S61. the remnant OF this
once magnificent army, now number
ing less than $4,000, (oi which only
l3.0oo were carrying arms) surren-
derod, and the Confedcracy was no
more.
AS to Treason and Traitors.
But what Of this charge OF trea-
son? And what kind OF a traitor
was Lee?
Let us hear what Charles Francis
Adams, OF Massachusetts. who
! fought throughout the war in the
! army which confronted Lee, has to
say about the charge OF treason and
the kind OF traitor Lee was. lie
says: "If Robert T.. Lee was a trail
. tor, so also was George Was shinulOn
1 Washington furnishes a precedent at
every point. \ Nirginian like Lee.
( he was also a British subject: he
. had fought under the British flag, as
! Lee had fought under that Of the
( United States; when, in l71G, Nir-
! &lHla seeded from the British En-
( pre-, lie Wc.' with his State, Just as
Lee went el%htE-llVe years later;
/ subsequently washington commando
/ cd armies IN thc hcld designated by
/ nose opposed To thcm as Rebels,
! ana whose descendants now glorify
! thclh rs the 'RcbclS OF 'IG, much as
! Lee Iatcr commanded and at last
( "uFfeh0cred much larger army,
! a!So dcSlShat"d Rebels by those
! "hohl thcN confronted. Except as
! IN 'helr outcome the cases were,
! therefore,, precisely alikc-and logic
! Is !OGlt--lt cOllEouupntlV 0DDp1rS "A