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mand on that never-to-be-forgotten retreat from Petersburg to Appo- mattox ; who saved a part of the cavalry from a shameful stampede at Namazine Creek ; who met and successfully resisted the charging columns of General Custer near Amelia Courthouse, saving, in all probability, the great Lee from capture ; who, as before mentioned, captured the last guns at Appomattox, and having remained faithful and loyal to the last, I beg that you will give this a place in your forthcoming volume, to the end that their devotion to duty and a proof of their heroic valor may be preserved and transmitted to those who are to come after them.

Very respectfully,

W. P. ROBERTS, Late Brigadier- General C. S. A.

R. A. BROCK, Esq.,

Secretary Southern Historical Society, Richmond, Va.

GENERAL R. E. LEE'S WAR-HORSES,

TRAVELLER AND LUCY LONG.

The following communication from Major Thomas L. Broun, Charleston, Kanawha county, West Virginia, appeared in the Rich- mond Dispatch August 10, 1886 :

"In view of the fact that great interest is felt in the monument about to be erected to General Lee, and that many are desirous that his war-horse should be represented in the monument, and as I once owned this horse, I herewith give you some items respecting this now famous war-horse, Traveller.

" He was raised by Mr. Johnston, near the Blue Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier county, Virginia (now West Virginia); was of the 1 Gray Eagle' stock, and, as a colt, took the first premium under the name of ' Jeff Davis ' at the Lewisburg fairs for each of the years 1859 an d 1860. He was four years old in the spring of 1861. When the Wise legion was encamped on Sewell mountain, opposing the advance of the Federal Army under Rosecranz, in the fall of 1861,