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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
t Leesylvania, Prince William county, in 1776, and died at Washington, D. C. She was a daughter of Henry Lee, and sister of Gen. Henry Lee, the famous cavalry officer, known as Light Horse Harry, father of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Another brother, Charles Lee, was attorney-general of the United States in Washington's administration. Richard L. Page, son of William Byrd and Ann Page, became a midshipman in the United States navy March 12, 1824, being first assigned to the sloop-of-war John Adams, on his deathbed, the great commander showed much emotion, and spoke in serious and tender strain of the genius and virtues of that officer. His loss was mentioned with appreciative reference to his ability and courage in the official report of General Lee. At the time of his death he was thirty-five years of age. His remains now lie within a few feet of his chief in Lexington cemetery. Brigadier-General William Henry Fitzhugh Payne Brigadier-General William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, a distin
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of General Dabney H. Maury at the Reunion of Confederate veterans, Maury camp, no. 2, Fredericksburg, Va., August 23, 1883. (search)
over the names of a few slave-owners in my parish in Virginia, who were born and bred in slavery, and who for elevation of character, education and surpassing intellect cannot be matched by the whole State of Massachusetts. The plantation adjoining mine on the north is Wakefield, where George Washington was born. Next to me on the south is Stratford, where Richard Henry Lee and Light Horse Harry Lee were born. Next to Stratford comes Chantilly, where Arthur Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Charles Lee and William Lee were born. If the gentleman will ride with me six miles I'll take him to Monroe's Creek, where President Monroe was born; if he will ride with me half an hour longer I will take him to Port Conway, where President Madison was born; if he will then stand with me in my portico I will show him, over the tree-tops, the chimney-stacks of the baronial mansion where Robert E. Lee first saw the light. Can Massachusetts match those men? There is no wonder, then, that this old
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Degrading influence of slavery—Reply of Judge Critcher to Mr. Hoar. (search)
nd yield the floor to the gentleman to match them if he could. On one side of his estate is Wakefield, the birth-place of Washington. On the other side is Stratford, the residence of Light Horse Harry Lee, of glorious Revolutionary memory. Adjoining Stratford is Chantilly, the residence of Richard Henry Lee, the mover of the Declaration of Independence, and the Cicero of the American Revolution. There lived Francis Lightfoot Lee, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Charles Lee, at one time Washington's Attorney-General; and Arthur Lee, the accomplished negotiator of the treaty of commerce and alliance between the Colonies and France in 1777. Returning, as said before, you come first to the birth-place of Washington; another hour's drive will bring you to the birth-place of Monroe; another hour's drive to the birth-place of Madison, and if the gentleman supposes that the present generation is unworthy of their illustrious ancestors, he has but to stand on the s
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.21 (search)
d at mine. We rode on quietly together, though Lee was watchful to keep his horse in order. Passi those hard times altogether acceptable, as General Lee was assured, in order to silence his regreted in Richmond, and sent Robert to join it. General Lee told me that at the battle of Sharpsburg th bless you, my son, you must go in. When General Lee was in camp near Richmond his friends frequcussing that important event. I have said that Lee's natural temper was combative, and to this mayct. General Grant interposed in the case of General Lee, on the ground that he had taken his paroleby inserting specifications of overt acts. General Lee was summoned as a witness before that grandsed by virtue of the writ of habeas corpus. General Lee met me very soon after having given his tesuth was wide open, and he was fast asleep. General Lee pleasantly added that, if he had had any va he could pack a jury so as to convict Davis or Lee—and it was under such surroundings that he met [6 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.40 (search)
don McCabe to Judge George L. Christian. During the summer Captain McCabe spent several months abroad, and while in England he became acquainted with a most unusual circumstance, which he communicated to the veterans at length through the letter to Judge Christian. The incident is best described in the words of Captain McCabe himself. A writer in the London Times, in reviewing, in October, Sir George Trevelyan's American revolution, had made a bad blunder touching the ancestry of General Charles Lee, confounding the Cheshire family with that from which sprung the Lees of Virginia. The days of old. I wrote a letter to the Times correcting the blunder, and, fortunately, dated it from my London club, The Athenaeum. On the afternoon of the day on which it was published came to me a most cordial letter from Gerald Smythe, Esq., one of the solicitors for the London and Northwest Railway, stating that he would greatly like to meet me, and proposing that I should at once come to
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, The Prospect Hill Park Celebration. (search)
ear to the history of our nation. The work done on Bunker Hill showed that the patriots of 1775 could fight. The work done here showed that they would never give up; that they could stand, but could not run. So it came to pass while redcoats filled the town of Boston, while British warships thundered in the harbor and on the river, while the red-coated soldiers flung their defiance from yonder Bunker Hill, that upon this mount patriots plied the shovel, minutemen tramped the redoubt, and Lee, and Greene, and Sullivan, and Putnam planned bulwarks of revolution, and Washington raised the thirteen stripes of Union, and all the time, sheltered behind the citadel of this hill, a liberty-loving dependent people were becoming a liberty-demanding independent nation. Behind the bulwarks erected here—bulwarks of sand and men and of men with sand—was laid the foundation of a new commonwealth, was born a new nation—the mightiest of any age. Here the very wind tells of devotion and of str<
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Israel Putnam and Prospect Hill. (search)
s filled the town of Boston, while British warships thundered in the harbor and on the river, while the red-coated soldiers flung their defiance from yonder Bunker Hill, upon this mount patriots plied the shovel, minutemen tramped the redoubt, and Lee, and Greene, and Sullivan, and Putnam’ (some reversal of the order of the names needed) ‘planned bulwarks of revolution, and Washington raised the thirteen stripes of Union, and all the time, sheltered behind the citadel of the hill, a liberty-loviments of Colonels Nixon, Brewer, Scammans, Gerrish, Mansfield, Woodbridge, and Gardner. So tells us the Orderly Book of Nathan Stow, from which we cull several particulars more. The General Orders for July 4 stated: That Hon. Artemus Ward, Charles Lee, Philip Schuyler, and Israel Putnam, Esq., are appointed major-generals of the American army by the Continental Congress, and due obedience is to be paid to them as such; and, That all the troops of the several colonies which have been raised,
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Index (search)
), Elizabeth62 John Abbot Lodge101 Kemble, Miss4 Kentucky7 Kettell, Deacon Joseph60 King's Chapel, Boston13, 38 King Philip's War34 King William38 Kirtland, Susanna33 Knapp, Mrs. O. S.46 Knowlton, Captain90 Ladies' Repository, The8, 9, 25, 27 Lake Champlain49 Lake Sunapee52 Lake Winnepesaukee56 Landgrave of Hesse10 Larion, Johannah11, 13 Larion, Louis13 Lathrop, Ellen20 Lathrop, Rev. Thomas L.10 Latin Schoolhouse, Boston13 Leathe, Edwin66 Lechmere Point, Cambridge87, 94 Lee, General Charles78, 87, 95 Lefevre10 Leonard, Chaplain95 Lexington, Mass.6, 8, 73, 78 Lexington, Battle of88 Lexington Common79 Libbey, Mrs. Katherine B. W.66, 67 Libbey, Mrs. Katherine B. W., Writings of66, 67, 68 Liberal Institute, Litchfield, Me.102 Lincoln, Abraham7 Lincoln Schoolhouse, Somerville27 Linn, Abigail13 Lisbon Falls, Me.102 Litchfield, Me.102 Literary Men and Women of Somerville1, 25, 66 Little Washington Village, N. C.22 Long, Joshua60 Long, Michael37 Longfe
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, The old Royall house, Medford (search)
h was the beginning of the present Harvard Law School. This ancient Royall estate was once part of Governor Winthrop's Ten Hills Farm, and was then part of Charlestown. In the Revolution the old mansion was for a time the headquarters of General Charles Lee, who afterwards moved to the old Oliver Tufts house; while Lee had the Royall mansion, it was facetiously named Hobgoblin Hall. It is a relic all are interested in preserving, and it is believed and hoped that this society will succeed s then part of Charlestown. In the Revolution the old mansion was for a time the headquarters of General Charles Lee, who afterwards moved to the old Oliver Tufts house; while Lee had the Royall mansion, it was facetiously named Hobgoblin Hall. It is a relic all are interested in preserving, and it is believed and hoped that this society will succeed in purchasing and restoring this historic place, which was during the last century considered one of the grandest mansions in Massachusetts.
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Index (search)
, 85, 86. Johnson, Miss, Sebrina, 93. Johnson, Zechariah, 86. Jones, Ruth, 19. Kelley, Hall J., 90. Kenney, James, 41. Kent, Samuel, 16, 21, 63, 64. Kettell, 79. Kettell, John, 63, 66. Kettell, Mary, 82. Kettell, Sarah, 86. Kilby Street. Boston. 86. Kingfisher (frigate), 80. King Philip, 84, 87. King Street, Boston, 86. Ladd, 27. Lamson, John, 16. Lamson, Joseph, 15, 16, 21. Larkin, John, 40. Latest Word of Universalism, The, 2. Leaky, Matthew, 85, 88. Lee, General, Charles, 23. Lemmon, Joseph, 80, 85, 88. Lemmon, Mary Bradley, 88. Leonard, H. F., 100. Lexington, Mass., 20. Lincoln Field, 7. Lombard University, 2. London, Eng., 5. Long Wharf, 27. Louisiana Native Guards, 55. Lowell, James Russell, 13. Lowell Railroad, 11, 12. Lutwich, Edward, 85. Lutwyche, Edward, 86. Lutwyche, Edward Goldstone, 86. Lynde, Hon., Joseph, 87. Lynde, Sarah (Davidson), 87. Lynn, Mass., 20, 77. Macarty, Margaret, 85. Maccurdy, Thomas, 86. Mackerel La
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