...nor of our dead should be protected, and justice done by posterity to the aspirations, the motives, and the deeds of those who had fought and failed. A plan of such an organization was submitted to General Lee , but he did not think the time had arrived for such an action. But when, in October, 1870, all Christendom stood uncovered before that open grave, at Lexington, when the South bent over the bier ...