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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 2 (search)
posted, had determined to make a stand. General Lee thus describes the position: Early on July st let the Confederate commanders speak. General Lee says: On the right the attack was gallantlyox Courthouse—Last official reports made to General Lee after the surrender, etc. In the account date of September 5, 1890, he writes: General Lee, at Appomattox Courthouse, ordered officialch they were made, they will be found among General Lee's private papers. I would like to see the last official reports of Lee's subalterns, made at Appomattox Courthouse after the surrender, publi May, but his claim was never recognized by Generals Lee and Early. He claimed two pieces of artillre of General Lane that the reports made to General Lee by his general officers, after the surrende created an important diversion in favor of General Lee in the defence of Richmond, and had re-ente which case the important diversion in favor of Lee would have come to naught. Therefore the objec[1 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
reeminent—accorded to the statutes of Davis and Lee and Jackson and and Johnson and Hampton and of , to unite his forces at Danville with those of Lee, who even then contemplated abandoning his posiGoldsboro on the 6th of April. Inferring that Lee would succeed in making junction with Johnston,f infantry, who told us he was going home; that Lee had surrendered, and what was left of his army ght to disband his force upon the terms granted Lee's army. The general, deeming it best to acceptforeign prince; but when the people heard that Lee had laid down his sword in the midst of its ownish utterly at Appomattox. It did not die with Lee. It will survive the passions of the hour and lm the adjoining counties. Many pictures of General Lee were hung in front of stores and residencesspeaker then rapidly ran over the events of General Lee's career up to the civil war, and spoke elont peroration on the Christian character of General Lee the speaker closed his splendid oration. [26 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 4 (search)
ard in which he was held was touchingly manifested. Richmond. In Richmond, Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans led in the initiative. At a meeting of this body, stile Indians he signalized his fitness to lead men in battle. Second only to Lee. Distinguished in the Florida war he showed himself at each step of his careejustly considered one of the most skilfully conducted in the annals of war. When Lee reached Petersburg Grant gained a better base of operation and a shorter line ofs of the lives of his followers, hurled them upon the daily diminishing ranks of Lee with the single object of destroying him by the mere force of attrition. With tbeauty in the closing days of the bitter and bloody struggle. The grand army of Lee was reduced to the last extremity. It had at last worn itself away by continuouthe whole South. Under these distressing circumstances Johnston was recalled by Lee to the command of the army from which he had been arbitrarily removed. It would
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 5 (search)
feeling of his distress on hearing of his brave boy's death, and how Lee, who broke the news to him, wept as he grasped his hand and told it.ne day after our daily session Franklin said: Now that you have seen Lee and Johnston working together for some weeks, how do you estimate the two men? In previous discussion I had thought Lee more full of promise and capacity. I said: While both are as earnest and intelligent as possible, I have noticed that Colonel Lee often yields his opinions to those of the board or of other members of it, while Colonel Johnstoessee. Why, then should I be condemned for the defensive, while General Lee was adding to his great fame by the same course? General Bragg ther West to endeavor to get us reinforcements from Kirby, Smith and Lee. I thought him satisfied with the state of things, but not so with t—a good one it is—and now hangs in the rotunda of our Capitol beside Lee's. I was asked to go and keep him in chat while the artist was at wo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memorial services in Memphis Tenn., March 31, 1891. (search)
k. In February, 1865, General Johnston was ordered by General Lee (then the commander-in-chief of all the armies of the Co Sherman had sixty thousand men. General Johnston urged General Lee, through the Richmond authorities, to withdraw from Riche with him and beat Sherman before Grant could join him, but Lee replied that it was impossible for him to leave Virginia. Cn the meantime Richmond had been evacuated, and on April 9th Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant. Johnstoederate army on the terms of the agreement between Grant and Lee. How touching were his parting words to his soldiers in May,gnty of his State and a genuine love for her welfare, as did Lee and other gifted patriots, we might well expect. While he h, he has joined Stonewall Jackson, who served under him, and Lee, whom he esteemed the foremost man of the age, and other nothe army of Northern Virginia to the invincible and immortal Lee. As an instance of the confidence and devotion of his arm
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 17 (search)
field to stand by his native State, and, as he said, to share the miseries of his people, down through his marvelous career to the hour of his christian death, General Lee's life was a lesson to mankind that there was nothing too lofty, nothing too severe, for the highest type of Southern manhood to do or to endure at the call of the destiny of the Confederacy was decided and the Southern movement doomed. After the failure at Gettysburg and the fall of Vicksburg, the men who had stood with Lee at Sharpsburg—less than forty thousand against more than eighty thousand—bouyant with hope in 1862, stood steadily as then before Richmond in 1865, after all groundall affectation and hypocricy when he speaks of his own comrades whom he loves for the dangers they have seen together. If the time is coming when the portraits of Lee and Grant shall hang side by side in the houses of the people North and South, those who would hail its advent with delight cannot hasten it by repression or decei
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General R. E. Lee's war-horses, Traveller and Lucy long. (search)
save for the infirmities common to old age, a horse ridden in battle during the war by General Robert E. Lee. It is Lucy long, a little sorrel mare, which many will recall having seen ladies ride through the streets of Lexington alongside of General Lee astride of his more famous war-horse Traveller. Lucy Long was a present to General Lee from General J. E. B. Stuart in 1862, when the former was conducting the Sharpsburg campaign. That summer George Lee was standing in a skirmish line holGeneral Lee from General J. E. B. Stuart in 1862, when the former was conducting the Sharpsburg campaign. That summer George Lee was standing in a skirmish line holding Traveller. The horse was high-spirited, impatient and hard to hold and pulled the General down a steep bank and broke his hands. For a time he found it necessary to travel in an ambulance. It was then that General Stuart found Lucy Long, bought her and gave her to him. She was a low, easy moving, and quiet sorrel mare. General Stuart purchased her from Mr. Stephen Dandridge, the owner of The Bower, a country place in Jefferson county, famous in that day for its hospitality and a