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Identifier: roberteleesouth00whit (find matches)
Title: Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: White, Henry Alexander
Subjects: Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870
Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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fathersgrave with beautiful fresh flowers. I presume it is the last time Ishall be able to pay it my tribute of respect. The cemetery is un-harmed and the graves are in good order, though the house of Dungeness has been burned and the island devastated. I hope Iam better. I know that I am stronger, but I still have the pain inmy chest whenever I walk. I have felt it, too, occasionally recentlywhen quiescent. September 28, 1870, after a day of arduouslabours, he stood at his table to ask Gods blessingupon the evening meal. Not a syllable fell from hislips and he sank into a chair. The pain in the chesthad wellnigh completed its fatal work. The familycontinued to watch at his bedside with tender min-istrations ; from day to day they indulged the hopethat the beloved husband and father would yet bespared. The heart of the entire people of the Southascended to Heaven with the petition that his daysmight be prolonged. But he knew that the endwas at hand. His mind was clear and the look of
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MONUMENT TO GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE, IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. 18701 President of WasJmigton College. 457 peace was upon his face. In the closing hoursthe great spirit, Hke that of the dying Jackson,seemed to visit again the field of battle. His lastwords were these: Tell Hill he must come up ! At half-past nine oclock on the morning of October12, 1870, Robert E. Lee entered into glory ever-lasting. His body lies in the mausoleum erectedat the rear of the college chapel, and beside himare laid his wife and his daughter Agnes. Abovethe tomb, and visible from the chapel hall, is Valen-tines recumbent marble figure of Lee the soldiertaking his rest, with his sword sheathed at his sideand his martial cloak around him. Beneath thecreeping ivy in this quiet abode reposes all that ismortal of him who abides in the hearts of his coun-trymen as ideal soldier and as perfect man. INDEX. Abolitionist party, 28, 67, 69, 73. 74, 78. Si, 82Adams, John, 14, 56Adams, John Quincy, 6g, 71Alabama, 136Alexande

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  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Lee__Robert_Edward__1807_1870
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Putnam
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  • bookleafnumber:560
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