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urg and Potomac railroad. And here, against our hopes, notwithstanding the skill and care of wise and watchful surgeons, attended day and night by wife and friends, amid the prayers and tears of all the Southern land, thinking not of himself, but of the cause he loved, and for the troops who had followed him so well and given him so great a name, our chief sank, day by day, with symptoms of pneumonia and some pains of pleurisy, until, at 3:15 P. M. on the quiet of the Sabbath afternoon, May 10th, 1863, he raised himself from his bed, saying, No, no, let us pass over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees ; and, falling again to his pillow, he passed away, over the river, where, in a land where warfare is not known or feared, he rests forever under the trees. His shattered arm was buried in the family burying-ground of the Ellwood place--Major J. H. Lacy's — near his last battle-field. His body rests, as he himself asked, in Lexington, in the Valley of Virginia. The s