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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 215 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 180 0 Browse Search
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) 135 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 132 0 Browse Search
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert 100 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 92 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 87 1 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 72 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 59 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 56 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Life, services and character of Jefferson Davis. (search)
olors which now, recalling the days of carpet-bag and negro ascendency, seems like a prophet's vision. If I owned the four million of slaves in the South, said Robert Lee, I would sacrifice all for the Union. And so, indeed, would the Southern people. But Lee never indicated how such sacrifice could obtain its object, nor was iLee never indicated how such sacrifice could obtain its object, nor was it possible that it could. It was not the property invested in the slave that stood in the way, for emancipation with compensation for them was then practicable, and was again practicable in early stages of the war, and was indeed offered. But free the slaves, they would become voters; becoming voters, they would predominate in nubest troops of Europe, advanced for the first time to meet defeat. In 1836 Samuel Houston, sprung from the soil of that very county which now holds the ashes of Lee and Jackson, won the battle of San Jacinto, and achieved Texan independence. In 1845, under James K. Polk, of Tennessee, a Southern President, it was admitted into
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Monument to General Robert E. Lee. (search)
lved to erect a statue in enduring bronze to Robert Lee on yonder spot overlooking those labor'd ram-day Virginia matches him— And matches him with Lee. II. Who shall blame the social order Which g— And riding on that whirlwind came Majestic Robert Lee. Who—again I ask the question— Who may chalearnest than those Southern men Who followed Robert Lee. They thought that they were right, and thi boast in sight of all men That you followed Robert Lee. Peace has come. God gave his blessing On e; But bid me not, my Countrymen, To picture Robert Lee! As Saul, bound for Damascus fair, Was strie. And here to-day, my Countrymen, I tell you Lee shall ride With that great ‘rebel’ down the yea, The Pillars overlooking it Are Washington and Lee:— And a future spreads before us Not unworthy o as I can, the merits of the cause in which General Lee rendered his great services, to correct thes the action of Virginia determined that of General Lee. Before entering upon the narrative of [3
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Robert Edward Lee. (search)
that these are words of truth and soberness. Lee was fortunate in his birth, for he sprang from dwell on the round of engineering duties which Lee discharged with exactness and fidelity during think of anything but the impending danger. And Lee, the son of a leader of the Revolution, closelyndependence and made the American Constitution, Lee, inheriting along with the most ardent love of werful reinforcement. The secrecy with which Lee knew how to wrap this movement was itself a prered road to Richmond. At the opportune moment, Lee's line of twenty-five miles contracted to five,r the fierce and determined front attack led by Lee himself? There is nothing equal to it save onlilling to attack its adversary. However deeply Lee may have felt the failure of his daring stroke,himself puts it at 116,000. It is certain that Lee had less than 64,000 soldiers of all arms. Bu dark and gruesome thickets of the Wilderness. Lee could not drive back his stubborn adversary, bu[64 more...]