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R. E. Lee: A Biography: Volume I

March 22, 2022

“Duly on the morning of April 18 Lee rode over the bridge and up to the younger Blair’s house on Pennsylvania avenue, directly opposite the State, War and Navy building, where he found the old publicist awaiting him.

They sat down behind closed doors.
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Blair promptly and plainly explained his reason for asking Lee to call. A large army, he said, was soon to be called into the field to enforce Federal law; the President had authorized him to ask Lee if he would accept the command.

Command of an army of 75,000, perhaps 100,000 men; opportunity to apply all he had learned in Mexico; the supreme ambition of a soldier realized; the full support of the government; many of his ablest comrades working with him; rank as a major general- all this may have surged through Lee’s mind for an instant, but if so, it was only an instant.

Then his Virginia background and the mental discipline of years of years asserted themselves. He had said: ‘If the