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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of General Stephen D. Lee Richmond, Va. , News-leader, June 14 , 1934
Address of General Stephen D. Lee, [from the Richmond, Va., News-leader, June 14, 1934.]
Before the United Confederate Veterans, at Nashville, Tenn., June 14th, 1904.
The following is the address delivered by Lieutenant-General Stephen D. Lee, commander-in-chief United Confederate Veterans, at Nashville, Tenn.:
It is impossible for me to respond to the kindly and cordial welcome so fitly spoken to my comrades who wore the gray without thinking of the great soldier and orator upon whom this duty would have fallen if he had not been taken from us. It was in historic Nashville, seven years ago, that his eloquent voice gave utterance to the gratitude of our hearts to the citizens of this beautiful city for the hospitality for which they are famous, and which to-day has laid us under new obligations.
It was here that he placed in your hands his commission as your chieftain and sought to retire into private station.
With an outburst of loyal devotion, resistless as the wh