Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1913 — Lee’s Slim Animal. [ARTICLE]

Lee’s Slim Animal.

President Lincoln on June 14, 1863, wrote Gen. Hooker: "So far as we can make out here the enemy has Milroy surrounded at Winchester and Tyler at Martinsburg. If they could hold out a few days could you help them? If the head of Lee’s army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsvllle, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him?”