... a still higher and holier duty, and he obeyed; it was to stand in the lot, and to share the fortunes of his own people and kindred and family. In the spirit which animated that purest of patriots, R. E. Lee , and from a like stern sense of duty, he gave his hand with his heart in it to the South. Stopping but a day at Montgomery, Ala., then the seat of the Confederate government, to learn the situati...