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Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
. I have also heard lately of his death. I have read in the papers that collections are being made for the Lee monument. I have asked my mother to let me send some money — not money that she gave me, but money that I earned myself. I made some of my money by keeping the door shut last winter, and the rest I made by digging up grass in the garden. I send you all I have. I wish it was more. I am nine now. Respectfully, Maggie McIntyre. Rev. R. S. Stewart wrote to Mrs. Lee from Baltimore, December 29, 1872: Accident a few weeks ago led me to read over again after fifty years the Scottish Chiefs, and I have been so struck with the identity of character between Sir William Wallace and General Lee that I can not help mentioning it to you and asking you to read this book again, if you have not done so, since the late struggle for Southern liberty commenced. In reading it myself, I find every noble sentiment of religion, of patriotism, and of humanity expressed that we all hea
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world. In 1784 Virginia, desiring to testify her appreciation of the services and characte Va., March 26, 1870. Hon. J. S. Marye, President of the Senate of Virginia. Sir: It would afford me great pleasure to be able to avail mys single attribute of the mind was projected upon itself. Well may Virginia be proud of sons who shine upon the pages of the world's history l glory and shed their splendor on the darkness of the world. In Virginia's capital city now stand two splendid equestrian statues to Georgery 19th, the birthday of General Robert E. Lee, a legal holiday in Virginia. In the universal mourning for him the sympathies of the world fiRichmond, and who had more to do with its presentation to the State of Virginia than any one else. General Lee was also pre-sented with a mahat there was a universal demand that he should become Governor of Virginia, he replied, after expressing his high appreciation of the positio
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 17
rnment in existence, under whose flag he must resume the duties of citizenship. He cited to his friends the example of Washington, who fought against the French in the service of the King of Great Britain, and then with the French against the Englisave no authority in the case, my desire is that the prisoners shall have equal rations with my men. He was summoned to Washington in March, 1866, as a witness before a congressional committee which was inquiring into the condition of things in the St he was about to put on. You do not like my hat? said he; why, there were a thousand people on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington the other day admiring this hat! It was his only reference to the crowds of persons who gathered around him wherever hithout guilt. He was Caesar without his ambition, Frederick without his tyranny, Napoleon without his selfishness, and Washington without his reward. He was as obedient to authority as a servant and royal in authority as a king. He was as gentle a
Cranbrook (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 17
as also pre-sented with a magnificently illustrated Bible from Mr. Hope and his wife, Lady Mildred, a sister of the present Lord Salisbury, together with other members of the family and friends. The dedication reads thus: General Robert E. Lee, Commanding the Confederate Army, from the Undersigned Englishmen and Englishwomen, recognizing the Genius of the General, admiring the Humanity of the Man, respecting the Virtues of the Christian. October 18, 1864. wrote from Bedgebery Park, Cranbrook, England, November 25, 1872, to Mrs. Lee, thanking her for photographs of General Lee, and added, They embody to us heroic virtue and purest patriotism, the most exalted military genius, the highest and purest domestic excellence, while the impress of your pencil and your autograph doubles their value. From Aldenham Bridge, North Shropshire, England, a lady sent Mrs. Lee a copy of a lecture delivered by her husband, and wrote, January 24, 1866, that she did it in order to add one to the many
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 17
sions, and tendered his allegiance to the only government in existence, under whose flag he must resume the duties of citizenship. He cited to his friends the example of Washington, who fought against the French in the service of the King of Great Britain, and then with the French against the English, under the orders of the Continental Congress. If you intend to reside in this country, he wrote a friend in New Orleans, and wish to do your part in the restoration of your State and in the Govery embody to us heroic virtue and purest patriotism, the most exalted military genius, the highest and purest domestic excellence, while the impress of your pencil and your autograph doubles their value. From Aldenham Bridge, North Shropshire, England, a lady sent Mrs. Lee a copy of a lecture delivered by her husband, and wrote, January 24, 1866, that she did it in order to add one to the many testimonies which you must have received of the sympathy and veneration which have been inspired in
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my health is such as to require me to reach a milder climate as soon as practicable. With a due sense of the honor conferred on me by the resolution of the Senate, I have the honor to be your most obedient servant, R. E. Lee. His sweet daughter Agnes, who did not long survive her father, accompanied him. On the trip he embraced the opportunity to see once more his father's grave, on an island off the coast of Georgia. General Henry Lee (or Light-horse Harry ), in returning from the West Indies, where he had been, hoping to restore his health, was, it may be remembered, taken ill, and begged to be put ashore at General Greene's mansion, then occupied by his daughter, where he died, and where his remains now lie. From Savannah, Ga., April 18, 1870, the general wrote Mrs. Lee: We visited Cumberland Island, and Agnes decorated my father's grave with beautiful fresh flowers. I presume it is the last time I shall be able to pay it my tribute of respect. The cemetery is unharmed and
Cumberland County (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
w much gratification it is, and it will afford me and my whole family, during the remainder of our lives, to reflect that we have been brought into contact and to know and to appreciate you and all that are dear to you. In looking beyond Richmond for quarters, General Lee was much in favor of purchasing a farm in Orange County, in the beautiful section near the railroad crossing of the Rapidan, with which he was so familiar; but about that time Mrs. Elizabeth Randolph Cocke, of Cumberland County, Virginia, granddaughter of Edmund Randolph, offered him the use of a dwelling house situated on a portion of her estate in Powhatan County. As it was known that he had been dispossessed of his old home at Arlington, numerous offers of money, houses, and lands almost daily reached him, as well as requests to become the president of business associations and chartered corporations. Mrs. Cocke's kind, cordial manner, for which she was proverbial, and the retired situation of the dwelling of
Powhatan (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
f the Rapidan, with which he was so familiar; but about that time Mrs. Elizabeth Randolph Cocke, of Cumberland County, Virginia, granddaughter of Edmund Randolph, offered him the use of a dwelling house situated on a portion of her estate in Powhatan County. As it was known that he had been dispossessed of his old home at Arlington, numerous offers of money, houses, and lands almost daily reached him, as well as requests to become the president of business associations and chartered corporatiot of the college's treasury! General Lee's favorite war horse, Traveler, the famous gray which had borne him so faithfully amid the flying bolts of battle, now carried him to peaceful pursuits. Unheralded and unattended, having ridden from Powhatan County in four days, his simple entree was made into the little mountain town of Lexington. As he drew rein in front of the village hotel, an old soldier recognized him, gave the military salute, placed one hand upon the bridle, the other upon the
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 17
he country, which I think is the duty of every citizen to do, I know of no objection to your taking the amnesty oath. In the same month he was indicted by the United States grand jury, with Mr. Davis and others, for treason. With a clear conscience, he made up his mind, he said, to let the authorities take their course. I have atisfaction of the trustees or to the benefit of the country. Then, too, he was excluded from the terms of amnesty in the proclamation of the President of the United States, he said, and an object of censure to a portion of the country, and he was afraid he might draw upon the college a feeling of hostility, and therefore cause in ambition except the consciousness of duty faithfully performed. Far removed from political or civic ambition, he would have declined the presidency of the Confederate States if his sword had carved their independence as readily as he did positions carrying great salaries. He once said that the only public office he ever might b
Liberty Hall (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
vested the same in General Washington. The Legislature agreed to the condition upon which alone he would receive the gift-viz., that he would be permitted to present it to objects of a public nature, such as the education of the poor, particularly the children of such as have fallen in the defense of the country. He gave this stock in 1796 to Liberty Hall Academy in Rockbridge County, first presided over by William Graham, an old Princeton classmate and friend of General Lee's father. Liberty Hall was now Washington College, that name having been adopted in 1812. Perhaps past associations had something to do with General Lee's accepting the presidency of the college, as well as a desire to contribute his part toward laying the only true foundation upon which a republic can restthe Christian education of its youth. His object now, as in 1861, was to render the best service he could to his native State, and to that purpose he had never been unfaithful. By the intelligent and ju
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