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.
69 In any case, Lee returned to work: Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 69.
70 After the boy’s birth: Ibid., 71.
71 It was not just a question of neatness: Ibid.
71 “The spirit is willing”: Ibid.
72 While she was away: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 18.
72 At that time, Lee owned: Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 72.
73 “an extended mock love affair”: Ibid.
73 Whereas the portrait of Mary Custis: Ibid.
73 When Harriet gave birth: Ibid.
73 “How I did strut along”: Ibid., 73.
73 “As for the daughters of Eve”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 118.
74 Owing to Talcott’s frequent absences: Ibid., 119.
75 When he took command of the army of Italy: Sir Edward Cust, Annals of the Wars of the Nineteenth Century (London: John Murray, 1863), Vol. 3, 260.
78 As a result Mr. Schneider: A. L. Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee (New York: J. M. Stoddard, 1886), 25.
78 The original boundary line: Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 82.
79 “But why do you urge”: Ibid., 82–83.
79 The apparent harshness: Ibid., 83; Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 134.
79 In the heroic medical tradition of the day: Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 83.
79 Eventually two large “abscesses”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 134.
80 “I have never seen a man”: Ibid.
80 “The country looks very sweet”: Ibid., 136.
81 “they wanted a skillful engineer”: Ibid., 138.
82 The immediate problem facing Lee: Ibid.
83 Lee’s responsibilities included: Ibid.
83 “the dearest and dirtiest”: Ibid., 139.
83 His aide and companion on the long trip: Ibid., 140.
84 “The improved condition of the children”: Ibid., 141.
85 The problem to which he gave the most immediate attention: Wikipedia, “Mississippi River,” 10.
85 When the river was high: Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 89.
85 He had planned to survey: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 143.
86 “in full costume”: Elizabeth Pryor, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters (New York: Viking, 2007), 114.
87 His solution to the problems: See Stella M. Drumm, “Robert E. Lee and the Mississippi River,” Missouri Historical Society, Vol. 6, No. 2, February 1929.
88 “The commerce thus made available”: Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, 28–29.
89 By July 1838, “Lee had pushed”: Drumm, “Robert E. Lee and the Mississippi River,” 146.
89 On the way home Lee encountered: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 148.
90 Even so, the Lees left their daughter Mary: Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 91–92.
90 Lee boasted that the boys: Ibid., 93.
90 They spent a month: Ibid.
91 Saint Louis was by no means: Pryor, Reading the Man, 111; Mary P. Coulling, The Lee Girls (Winston-Salem, N.C.: Blair, 1987), 11; Harnett T. Kane, The Lady of Arlington: A Novel Based on the Life of Mrs. Robert E. Lee (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1953), 91.
91 Although the Lee family: Thomas, Robert E. Lee, 94.
91 “brats squalling around”: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 10.
92 One observer comments on Lee’s diligence: Drumm, “Robert E. Lee and the Mississippi River,” 170.
92 She was also pregnant: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 158.
93 “his family was increasing”: Ibid., 157.
94 Typically, Lee’s correspondence: Drumm, “Robert E. Lee and the Mississippi River.”
94 He plunged into Gratiot’s defense: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 158.
94 The improvements Lee had made: Pryor, Reading the Man,
