MRS. LEE AND THE SOCKS
R. E. Lee, in his recollections of his father, General Lee, says:
“His letters to my mother tell how much his men were in need. My mother was an invalid from rheumatism, and confined to a roller chair. To help the cause with her own hands, as far as she could, she was constantly occupied in knitting socks for the soldiers, and induced all around her to do the same. She sent them directly to my father and he always acknowledged them.”
It was well known in the army what great pleasure it gave the General to distribute these socks.