...grateful recollections of your kind consideration, and your name and fame will always be dear to me. "Save in defense of my native State, I never desire again to draw my sword. Be pleased to accept my most earnest wishes for the continuance of your happiness and prosperity, and...

...received, and expressing regret for having to sever himself from his comrades, he added : "Save in the defense of my native state, I never desire again to draw my sword." He wrote letters to relatives with Union sympathies and for all he had the same answer: he was doing...

...have devoted the best years of my life and all the ability I possessed ' ; and adding, 'save in the defense of my native State I never desire again to draw my sword.' Immediately after this he was offered and accepted the position of commander-in-chief of the forces...

...was from here that 2 days later he resigned his commission in the US Army, stating that "Save in the defense of my native State, I never desire again to draw my sword." Shortly thereafter the Lees left Arlington House after removing as much as possible of the family pictures,...

...was from here that 2 days later he resigned his commission in the US Army, stating that "Save in the defense of my native State, I never desire again to draw my sword." Shortly thereafter the Lees left Arlington House after removing as much as possible of the family pictures,...

...was from here that 2 days later he resigned his commission in the US Army, stating that "Save in the defense of my native State, I never desire again to draw my sword." Shortly thereafter the Lees left Arlington House after removing as much as possible of the family pictures,...

...creatures that cannot see the good of secession." But he was soon to write without being contradictory that "save in defense of my native State, I never desire again to draw my sword." The course of Robert E. Lee was set. 7 Lee wrote his sister Mrs. Marshall who sided with her husband...

...state and share the miseries of my people," he said, adding in his letter of resignation from the army: "Save in defense of my native State, I never desire again to draw my sword."8 That defense was required almost immediately, but Lee did not receive an offer from Richmond...

...a service to which I have devoted the best years of my life and all the ability I possessed. . . . Save in defense of my native State, I never desire again to draw my sword." Three days later he was appointed by Governor John Letcher (1813—1884) of Virginia to be commander-in-chief...

...your life; but I feared it would be so." Virginia seceded on 19 April. The next day Lee wrote Scott, "Save in defense of my native State, I never desire again to draw my sword."5 Virginians now expected General Scott, a native son, to fly across the Potomac to their defense....