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federate Army, confined with me, by the occurrence of this appalling crime, and by the seeming tendency in the public mind to connect the South and Southern men with it.

X^eed we say that we are not assassins, nor the allies of assas- sins, be they from the North or from the South ; and that coming as we do from most of the States of the South, we would be ashamed of our own people, were we not assured that they will universally repudiate this crime.

Under the circumstances I could not refrain from some ex- pression of my feelings. I thus utter them to a soldier who will fully comprehend them. The following officers, Maj. Gen's. Edward Johnson, of Virginia^ and Kershaw of S. C, Brig. Gen's. Barton. Corse, Hunton and Jones of Va. Du Bose and H. R. Jackson of Ga., Frazier of Ala.. Smith and Gordon from Tenn., Cabell from Arkansas, and Marmaduke of Mo. and Commodore Tucker of Va. all heartily concur with me in what I have said.

R. S. EwELL, Lieutenant Gen. of C. S. Army.

To Gen. Grant. Lieutenant Gen. of the U. S. Army.

Letter of Colonel Thomas H. Carter. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

Charlottesville, Va., April 14, 1899. My Dear Mrs. Turner:

I am much obliged to you for copies of your interesting let- ter to Lieut. Col. Henderson, and the Examiner's Article. T entered the service under General Ewell at Sangster's Cross Roads with my Battery, the King Wm. Artillery, and soon formed a sincere admiration and afifection for him. I never knew a more honest, frank and modest man with equal parts ; indeed he never did himself justice in his opinion of himself, and was always reluctant to press his views as to the advis-