Lee's Farewell Address

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The Farewell Address of Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee, to the Army of Northern Virginia on April 10, 1865, known as General Order No. 9., from an 1883 Library of Congress reprint
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Lee's April 10, 1865 farewell to his Confederate Army soldiers

Confederate General Robert E. Lee issued his Farewell Address, also known as General Order No. 9, to his Army of Northern Virginia on April 10, 1865, the day after he surrendered to Union Army Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Lee's surrender was instrumental in bringing about the end of the American Civil War. The text of the order, which was written and drafted by Col. Charles Marshall and edited and finalized by Lee, read as follows:[1]

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The following is taken from a letter dated September 27, 1887, to General Bradley T. Johnson from Colonel Charles Marshall, CSA.[2]

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  2. Johnson, Buel, vol. 4, p. 747.

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