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A paper read by request before
R. E. Lee Camp, no. 1, C. V., March 9th, 1906.
[Our valued friend, from days
ante-bellum, is a highly esteemed citizen and successful practitioner of this city.
Being a gentleman of means, he delights in benefactions to the needy and those in distress.
Upon intimation to him of such wants, relief is immediately extended.
His quiet charities, unknown to the public, have been to a multitude of grateful recipients.
Company H (originally called ‘
Lee's Rangers’) 9th Virginia Cavalry, in which he served gallantly, had as its first
Captain, Wm. H. F. Lee, subsequently
Major-General, and familiarly known as ‘
Rooney Lee.’
A brother of the editor,
H. C. Brock, a member of the faculty of Hampden-Sidney College, who was severely wounded at
Stony Creek,
Dinwiddie County, in 1864, with many valued friends, served also in this noted Company.—Ed.]
Commander, Comrades, Friends.—
This raid has been written up so often, that I am reduced to a small margin from which to draw.
Perhaps no incidental narrative of the war between the States created so great a stir as the
Dahlgren Raid.
On the 4th of February, 1906,
Reverend John Pollard, D. D., spoke in deserved praise of
Lieutenant James Pollard, our officer and friend, which gave me great pleasure; not only on this occasion, but all others, when he led us into battle, proved himself a perfect Paladin of courage and ability.
The spring of 1864 was a time of terror and a season of agony to the 30,000 unfortunate men, women and children who were forced to remain in the
Confederate capital awaiting the issue of the greatest civil conflict ever known in the history of the Anglo-
Saxon race.
The
battle of Gettysburg had been fought, and
Lee had been
