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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Personal reminiscences of the last days of Lee and his Paladins. (search)
Personal reminiscences of the last days of Lee and his Paladins. Read before the A. P. Hill Camp, C. V., by request, on the 6th of March, 1890. By John Herbert Claiborne, M. A., M. D., Lately Major and Surgeon, P. A. C. S. comrades:—Arma virumque cano,—sang the bard of Mantua in epic story, which nineteen centuries have decreed immortal; but it is a story whose stirring incidents pale in shadowy nothing in presence of that mighty drama, whose tragic history you made in the Seven Last Scenes of Lee and His Paladins. The poet has not been born nor the orator made, who, with lyre or tongue, has given to the world a fitting recital of that heroic struggle of one short week, in which was lost a cause and country that we had dreamed to be a heritage from heaven, and which we had loved even better than life. Do not look to me, therefore, for song or story worthy of Confederate fame. I have no flowers of rhetoric to show, no measured lines of epic verse to bring, to your cam