A Captain in the Ranks w/ Direct link technology (A Romantic Adventure)

The slender remnant of Lee's artillery swung slowly into position a few miles west of Appomattox Court House. Wearily--but with spirit still--the batteries parked their guns in a field facing a strip of woodland. The guns were few in number now, but they were all that was left of those that had done battle on a score of historic fields.
Lee had been forced out of his works at Richmond and Petersburg a week before. Ever since, with that calm courage which had sustained him throughout the later and losing years of the war, he had struggled and battled in an effort to retreat to the Roanoke River. He had hoped there to unite the remnant of his army with what was left of Johnston's force, and to make there a final and desperate stand.