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15 Henry Lee helped to barricade: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 14.

15 “Death seemed so certain”: Ibid., 15.

15 This proposal was not taken up: Ibid.

16 “Broken in body and spirit”: Nagel, The Lees of Virginia, 182.

16 He didn’t even manage: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 31.

16 “My dear Sir”: Ibid.

16 When it was brought to: McCaslin, Lee in the Shadow of Washington, 18.

17 That had been tried before: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 37.

18 The contrast between her childhood: Thomas L. Connelly, The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society (New York: Knopf, 1977), 169.

19 For somebody whose health was as frail: Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 45.

20 She entrusted him with the keys: Ibid., 39.

20 He accompanied her on drives: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 34.

20 “Self-denial, self-control”: Ibid., 23.

21 When he first went away: Ibid., 30–31.

21 His maternal grandfather: Ibid., 24.

21 Perhaps because Ann Carter Lee: Ibid., 25.

21 As a child he was surrounded: Ibid., 25, 28.

24 At that time there was not as yet: Ibid., 38.

25 Fitzhugh’s letter referred: Ibid., 39.

CHAPTER 2 The Education of a Soldier

30 The academy still consisted of only: Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 1934), Vol. 1, 49.

30 The stone wharf: Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach, Travels Through North America During the Years 1825 and 1826 (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828), 110.

30 An English visitor with an eye for detail: William N. Blane, An Excursion Through the United States and Canada, 1822–1833 by an English Gentleman (London: Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, 1824), 352–76.

30 Tent mates were obliged to purchase: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 51.

30 Meals were ample: Theodore J. Crackel, West Point: A Centennial History (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002), 89.

31 The new cadets were given: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 52.

31 The marquis was greeted: Albany (New York) Argus, July 8, 1825.

33 Another roll call and inspection: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 56–57.

33 The list of things forbidden: Ibid., 52.

33 Unlike third-year cadet Jefferson Davis: Ibid., 55.

33 By the end of his first year: Ibid., 62.

34 One of them later said: Michael Fellman, The Making of Robert E. Lee (New York: Random House, 2000), 11.

37 He had no reason to be apprehensive: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 67.

38 Everywhere they went: Paul Nagel, The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 232.

38 This is not to say: Ibid., 235.

39 This problem he solved: Ibid., 206.

40 To his credit, perhaps, Henry never denied his guilt: Ibid., 207–14.

41 In a climax worthy of a nineteenth-century romantic novel: Ibid., 218.

43 Perhaps the most intense part of his studies: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 76–77.

43 Robert’s position as adjutant of the corps: Ibid., 80.

43 It is interesting to note: Ibid., 81.

44 Although Douglas Southall Freeman states: Ibid., 84.

45 She was staying at Ravensworth: Ibid., 87.

46 Mrs. Lee was hardly a major slave owner: A. M. Gambone, Lee at Gettysburg: Commentary on Defeat—The Death of a Myth (Baltimore, Md.: Butternut and Blue, 2002), 37.

47 He rejoiced in being known: Nagel, The Lees of Virginia, 235.

47 In fact two of the older Lee boys: Ibid.

48 Even at the very end of his life: Ibid., 292.

48 Robert was punctual to a fault: Ibid., 236.

50 Lee journeyed north to New York: Emory Thomas, Robert E. Lee (New York: Norton, 1995), 57; Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 94.

51 On the other hand, Cockspur Island: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 95.

51 Major Babcock, to whom Lee: Ibid., 96.

53 In January word finally arrived: Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 62.

54 Lee laid siege to Mary’s mother: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 104.

55 Mary was to have no fewer: Ibid., 105; Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 64.

55 Nothing except his children: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 108.

56 Perhaps nothing is more symbolic: Ibid., 109.

CHAPTER 3 The Engineer—1831–1846

61 “I actually could not find time”: Emory Thomas, Robert E. Lee (New York: Norton, 1995), 65.

61 this is pretty tame stuff: Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 1934), Vol. 1, 107.

62 During his honeymoon: Ibid., 112–13.

63 The Lees’ “apartment”: Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 66.

64 Convinced that “he was ordained”: Tony Horowitz, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (New York: Henry Holt, 2011), 20.

66 One of the doctors: William Styron: The Confessions of Nat Turner—A Critical Handbook, Melvin J. Friedman and Irving Malin, eds. (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1970), 43.

66 Fear of further slave insurrections: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 11–12.

67 He reassured his mother-in-law: Ibid., 111.

67 Notwithstanding his sensible effort to calm: Ibid.

67 “In this enlightened age”: Ibid., 372.

68 “My own opinion is that they [blacks]”: Michael Fellman, The Making of Robert E. Lee (New York: Random House, 2000), 268.

69 “The idea that Southern people”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 376.