Excerpt from General Lee, His Campaigns in Virginia: 1861-1865; With Personal Reminiscences
Nearly thirty years ago I ventured to publish "Four Years with General Lee," in which my primary object was to assist in establishing the fact of the great numerical odds against which the army under General Lee had to contend in its encounters with the Federal armies opposed to it.
General Lee had expressed a purpose to do this, and after his death, before its accomplishment, the duty seemed logically to devolve upon me.
The preparation of that monograph necessitated the presentation of much purely statistical matter, and the scope of the work embraced, in most cases, mere mention only of the campaigns of General Leo in the war between the States of the Union. While I have not attempted herein to give a critical account of the several engagements in which the army under General Lee took part, such as the military student would ask, I have endeavored to present the salient features and to give a sufficiently comprehensive account of the troops engaged, and the results achieved, to enable the general reader to form a fair idea of each of the great battles fought.
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