Quote#War
General Lee had not been conquered in battle, but surrendered because…
Quote byJubal Early · 1816–1894
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech at , January 19, 1872. The Campaigns of Gen. Robert E. Lee (Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1872), p. 45.
English (original)
General Lee had not been conquered in battle, but surrendered because he had no longer an army with which to give battle. What he surrendered was the skeleton, the mere ghost of the , which had been gradually worn down by the combined agencies of numbers, steam-power, railroads, mechanism, and all the resources of physical science.
— Jubal Early
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