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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Unveiling of Valentine's Recumbent figure of Lee at Lexington, Va., June 28th, 1883. (search)
rom the Blue Ridge mountains to the Mississippi river—in 1749, Robert Alexander, a Scotch-Irish immigrant, who was a Master of Arts of Trinity College, Dublin, established there The Augusta Academy—the first classical school in the Valley of Virginia. Under his successor, Rev. John Brown, the academy was first moved to Old Providence, and again to New Providence church, and just before the Revolution, for a third time, to Mount Pleasant, near Fairfield, in the new county of Rockbridge. In 1776, as the revolutionary fires were kindling, there came to its head as principal William Graham, of worthy memory, who had been a class-mate and special friend of Harry Lee at Princeton College; and at the first meeting of the trustees after the battle of Lexington, while Harry Lee was donning his sword for battle, they baptized it as Liberty Hall Academy. Another removal followed, in 1777, to near the old Timber-Ridge church; but finally, in 1785, the academy rested from its wanderings near L
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Notes and Queries. (search)
n his address at the great Lee Memorial meeting in Richmond, in November, 1870, President Davis said, among other eloquent utterances: Here he now sleeps, in the land he loved so well, and that land is not Virginia only, for they do injustice to Lee who believe he fought only for Virginia. He was ready to go anywhere, on any service, for the good of his country, and his heart was as broad as the fifteen States struggling for the principles that our forefathers fought for in the Revolution of 1776. And those whose privilege it was to hear the great chieftain talk most freely of the cause for which he fought, bear the most emphatic testimony that it was the independence of the South, the triumph of constitutional freedom, for which he struggled so nobly. His letters also are filled with expressions which show beyond cavil that R. E. Lee was as loyal to the flag of the Confederacy as to that of his native State--as true to all of the States of the Confederacy as to the one in which h
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Literary notices. (search)
rous prosecution of the work, that the volumes may appear more rapidly. We also earnestly suggest that instead of the flimsy binding usual in public documents that these invaluable historical volumes should have a substantial binding which may be handed down through the years to come. And, while we are suggesting we express our very decided conviction that they should drop from the title the word Rebellion which is as false to the truth of History as it would be applied to the Revolution of 1776, which conveys a reproach upon the Southern part of the re-united country, and the use of which can only stir up bad blood, and revive bitter memories. contributions to A history of the Richmond how-Itzer battalion. Pamphlet No. 1. Contents: 1. Organization of the First Company, and John Brown Raid. By Captain Henry Hudnall, of Second Company, December 13th, 1878. 2. Our Dead. Captain W. Gordon McCabe, December 13th, 1878. 3. The Battle of Bethel. By Rev. E. C. Gordon, of Third Comp