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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.40 (search)
y in check until most of my men passed out and joined our broken and discomfited masses in their inglorious retreat. It was at this point that old Rebel, my favorite war-steed, was killed. I had ridden him in all the engagements I had ever been in except two, and he had been four times wounded. I continued in command of this division nearly four months. At Chesterville, South Carolina, I got leave of absence and went to Richmond to tender my resignation, which was accepted on the 14th of March, 1865. My reasons for resigning were as follows: 1. I saw that the cause was lost. 2. I had been separated from the men and officers with whom I had borne the burden and heat of the day, and to whom I was endeared by a thousand sacred ties, and although I was willing to stand with our broken forces until the end of the struggle, I was unwilling to mourn with strangers at the funeral of The Lost Cause. 3. Our armies were, by an act of Congress, to be reorganized, and there was a su