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| The Last Rally by Mort Kunstler. Sayler's Creek, Virginia. Friday, April 6, 1865. |
"General Lee spurred forward to rally the men who were running toward him. He took a battle flag and held it aloft. There on Traveller he sat, the red folds of the bunting flapping about him, the soldiers in a mob in front of him, some wild with fear, some exhausted, some wounded, a few rushed on; others looked up and, recognizing him, began to flock around him as if to find shelter in his calm presence." ~Douglas Southall Freeman (1886 - 1953)
The scene depicts the final major rally of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during the Battle of Sayler's Creek (or Sailor's Creek), Virginia on Friday, April 6, 1865.
Three days later on Monday, April 9, 1865, General Lee would surrender his war-weary army at Appomattox Court House to U.S. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac beginning the formal end of the War Between the States (1861 - 1865).
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