on the farms. I hope they will all do well and behave themselves. I
should like, if I could, to attend to their wants and see them placed
to the best advantage. But that is impossible. All that choose can
leave the State before the war closes....

"...I executed the deed of manumission sent me by Mr. Caskie, and
returned it to him. I perceived that John Sawyer and James's names,
among the Arlington people, had been omitted, and inserted them. I
fear there are others among the White House lot which I did not
discover. As to the attacks of the Northern papers, I do not mind them,
and do not think it wise to make the publication you suggest. If all
the names of the people at Arlington and on the Pamunkey are not
embraced in this deed I have executed, I should like a supplementary
deed to be drawn up, containing all those omitted. They are entitled
to their freedom and I wish to give it to them. Those that have been
carried away, I hope are free and happy; I cannot get their papers to
them, and they do not require them. I will give them if they ever call
for them. It will be useless to ask their restitution to manumit
them...."





Chapter V
The Army of Northern Virginia



The General's sympathy for his suffering soldiers--Chancellorsville--