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In response to Brigadier General Edward Porter Alexander (April 1865) after the Battle of Appomattox Court House. Alexander had suggested for Confederate soldiers to disperse, report under orders to their respective governors, and continue fighting the Union. He admitted that he was silenced by Lee's rebuke. "I had not a single word to say in reply. He had answered my suggestion from a plane so far above it that I was ashamed for having made it." as quoted in Fighting For the Confederacy, pp. 531-33 and The Methodist Quarterly Review, January 1920 pp. 325-26 (en) |
