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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Ceremonies connected with the unveiling of the statue of General Robert E. Lee, at Lee circle, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 22, 1884. (search)
ration of Independence, and proclaiming that the American colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent; and the father of our hero, Light Horse Harry Lee, the Rupert of the Revolution, the friend of Washington, elected by Congress to deliver the eulogy of that illustrious man at his death, and who conferred upon hshington, and thus bound to his memory by the ties of hereditary friendship, fate seems to have determined that this illustrious exemplar should rain influence upon Lee from every source. It gave him to wife Mary Randolph Custis, daughter of the adopted son of Washington, the nearest representative of his house, and a woman whose ories and associations of the hero's life, that the very atmosphere of the place seemed instinct with the brooding influence of his spirit. From his very infancy Lee seems to have been enamored of virtue. In writing of him at an early age, his father says: Robert, who was always good, will be confirmed in his happy turn of min