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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 2 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
, presented a petition of cavalry and other volunteer corps of Virginia, asking for the removal to this State of the remains of Gen. Harry Lee, of revolutionary memory. In doing so, he said he had the honor to present a petition, which, as well from the character of it as from the imposing auspices under which it came, demanded a brief remark. It asked, at the hands of the Legislature, the appropriation of a sum of money sufficient to remove the remains of Gen. Harry Lee, the famous "Light-Horse Harry," of the Revolution, from the soil of Georgia, where they repose, to that of his native State. It came from a vast multitude of petitioners — all the principal military officers of Virginia, and volunteers of every kind — but chiefly, as is natural, of the cavalry corps of the State, as being that arm of the service on which General Lee conferred such distinguished lustre — a lustre that justly entitles him to be called the Murat of the South. He was aware he was not strictly in orde<