Letter from Robert E. Lee to John Cabell Breckinridge, March 31, 1865
written by Robert Edward Lee, 1807-1870 (1865); edited by Douglas Southall Freeman, 1886-1953 and Wymberley Jones De Renne; in Lee's Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America, 1862-65, from the Private Collections of Wymberley Jones De Renne (New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), 546-548