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 92 CONFEDERATE PORTRAITS

If he was to make the surrender, he may have preferred to make it absolute, and where the Lees and Jacksons would have had to make it too. Nevertheless, I find a singular piquancy in the image of him who is said to have jeoparded great batdes by his stiff-necked self-will becoming as a litde child again, of him who had rejected the generalship of Lee submitting his soul to the guid- ance of a ghostly confessor.

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