ose to his person both night and day.

Part of the time Gen. Lee rode in an ambulance with both hands bandaged,
his horse, "Traveler," having fallen over a log and crippled Lee's
hands. This gave me a good opportunity of seeing the great soldier at
close range.

I remember one afternoon, when toward sunset the army having gone into
camp for the night, Gen. Lee's headquarters being established in a
little farmhouse near Chantilla, I think in Loudoun county, the General
went out with one of his staff officers for a walk into an apple
orchard. They were gone perhaps an hour. While they were gone a guard
had been set around the cottage with instructions to let none pass
without an order from Gen. Lee.

When Gen. Lee returned with his aid by his side, he was halted by Frank
Peak (a member of my company, now living in Alexandria, Va.). They both
halted, and Peak said to them, "My instructions are to let none pass
without an order from Gen. Lee." Gen. Lee turned to his aid and said,
"Stop, the sentinel has halted us." The officer (I think it was Col.
Marshall, who afterward lived in Baltimore, and died there not long ago)
stepped forward and said, "This is Gen. Lee himself, who gives all
orders." Peak saluted them, and they passed on.

Before day the next morning the army was in motion toward Maryland, Gen.
Lee still riding in the ambulance, very much, no doubt, to the chagrin
of "Traveler," who was led by a soldier, just behind the ambulance.

Owing to the hard-fought battles around Richmond, Cedar Run and
Manassas (which followed each other in rapid succession), and the long,
weary marches through the hot July days, often far into the night, many
of Lee's soldiers, who were foot-sore and broken down, straggled from
the ranks, being unable to keep up with the stronger men. So great was
the number that it was said that half his army were straggling along the
roads and through the fields, subsisting as they could on fruits and
berries, and whatever food they could get from farmhouses.

As the army crossed the Potomac (four miles east of Leesburg) Gen. Lee
had to make some provision for the stragglers. It would not do to let
them follow the army into the enemy's country, because they would all be
captured. He concluded to abandon his bodyguard and leave it at the
river, with instructions to turn the stragglers and tell them to move
toward Winchester, beyond the Shenandoah. This was the point, no doubt,
that Gen. Lee had fi