Every energy, therefore, was put forth by the Confederacy to protect and maintain their capital.

Everything else would go if it went.

Lee's army had to be strengthened to enable it to maintain its position, no matter what territory was wrested from the South in another quarter.
I never expected any such bickering as I have indicated, between the soldiers of the two sections; and, fortunately, there has been none between the politicians.

Possibly I am the only one who thought of the liability of such a state of things in advance.
When our conversation was at an end Mr.Lincoln mounted his horse and started on his return to City Point, while I and my staff started to join the army, now a good many miles in advance.

Up to this time I had not received the report of the capture of Richmond.
Soon after I left President Lincoln I received a dispatch from General Weitzel which notified me that he had taken possession of Richmond at about 8.15 o'clock in the morning of that day, the 3d, and that he had found the city on fire in two places.