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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of the Lee Memorial Association. (search)
itten in 1798, making bequest of $50,000 to Liberty Hall Academy. Action of the Board of Trustees calling General Lee to the presidency of Washington College in 1865. General Lee's letter of acceptance. Personal Recollections of General Lee, by General Pendleton, delivered by him on the second anniversary of his death. Reminiscence, anecdotes and letters of General R. E. Lee, by J. William Jones, D. D. Roll of Liberty-Hall Volunteers. Photographs of General R. E. Lee, General Custis Lee, and the Board of Trustees and Faculty. Copies of Records of the Lee Memorial Association. A copy of the Southern Collegian, containing an account of the funeral ceremonies of General R. E. Lee. Names of members of the Lee Memorial Association. Names of Executive Committee of Lee Memorial Association. Copies of Southern Collegian for October and November, 1878. The ceremonies were closed with a benediction by Dr. Pendleton. The mausoleum proper, which has but rec
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Lee and Scott. (search)
ia, I was directed by President Davis to go to the General and to urge upon him to recommend his distinguished son, General Custis Lee, to an important command, for which President Davis thought him admirably fitted, but to which he could not assign nd spent several hours in his tent at night talking over the importance of the command to which it was desired that General Custis Lee should be assigned, and delivered to him messages which had been sent by President Davis upon the subject, and urge him by every consideration which I could think of to comply with the President's wishes as to the recommendation. General Custis Lee was recognized as one of the most distinguished graduates sent out from West Point, and a man of high attainments, him, and which he reiterated at different times in the conversation, when I would urge the President's wishes, was General Custis Lee is my son, and whilst I think very well of his abilities, yet, in my opinion, he has not been sufficiently tried in
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Virginia campaign of 1864-1865. (search)
00 present for duty. （Colonel Taylor makes General Lee's force nearly 64,000.) Grant's purpose gh the tangled, wooded wilderness which covered Lee's right flank, and force him to fight in the mo threatening his communications with Richmond. Lee anticipated his adversary, and leaving his cantanover Junction. Here the position taken up by Lee was so advantageous that Grant drew off withoutside of the James. Grant did not. He knew that Lee had been forced to detach Breckinridge and Earlhmond followed, which were completely foiled by Lee, and with heavy cost to the Federals. By the 3de for the springing of a mine on the centre of Lee's Petersburg lines. A vigorous demonstration oend of September, but all other efforts against Lee's lines during the autumn proved costly and abossly harried the Shenandoah Valley. For months Lee's men, in the trenches at Petersburg, were but led, and cost him heavily. Grant moved against Lee's right flank and communications as soon as the[15 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Correction of errors in statement of Governor Anderson, and letter of General Echols. (search)
eral and to urge upon him to recommend his distinguished son, General Custis Lee, to an important command, for which President Davis thought her the importance of the command to which it was desired that General Custis Lee should be assigned, and delivered to him messages which had b conversation, when I would urge the President's wishes, was, General Custis Lee is my son, and whilst I think very well of his abilities, yet my present position. Modesty and courtesy were characteristics of Lee, and self-assertion, even to the extent it was just, was no part of ludes, some gentlemen in Western Virginia requested me to appoint Custis Lee to the command of that department. He was then, and had for somet upon him. It must have been after this that General Echols saw General Lee, and thinking, no doubt, like myself, that Custis Lee was very wCustis Lee was very well suited to the command, he may naturally have enforced his opinion by a reference to my own, but General Robert Lee knew too well what was