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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Mecklenburg (N. C.) Historical Society. (search)
ina took the lead of all the States in passing resolutions of Independence. And when the Congress of all the States met in Philadelphia, it was a Virginian, Richard Henry Lee, who first moved that the States should be free and independent States. It was a Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the National Declaration of Independnder the storm of shot and shell! An English officer, who had been on Longstreet's staff, witnessed the battle of Sadowa, and gave it as his opinion that 70,000 of Lee's ragged, barefoot veterans could have swept the 200,000 victors off the field. I have compared, so far as I could, the losses sustained in the great battles of th by that test, European fighting has been child's play in comparison with Confederate. I am ashamed for strangers to see my barefoot, ragged boys in camp, said General Lee to an English visitor, but I would be glad for all the world to see them on the field of battle. This tribute from the great commander is alone sufficient to e
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Seacoast defences of South Carolina and Georgia. (search)
e concluding paragraphs that I shall here reproduce them. General Lee received an order about the middle of March (1862), assigning hig of security and confidence. We perceive in this campaign of General Lee in Georgia and South Carolina results achieved by a single geniuculable force. General Long, as he says, was on the staff of General Lee during the time in question, but was not in the Department of So of South Carolina and Georgia after October, 1862. That what General Lee did was in character with the ability of that distinguished man,erton, as I have always understood, had materially departed from General Lee's plan of defensive works for the department. Be that so or not centre of the defensive system of that department as planned by General Lee, who established his headquarters there. Geographically Coosawhns and details, including a creative military administration. General Lee's own reputation, which rests solidly upon his own resplendent d
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Strength of General Lee's army in the Seven days battles around Richmond. (search)
Strength of General Lee's army in the Seven days battles around Richmond. [For obvious reasons, our Confederate generals did not publish during the war detailed statements of the strength of their armies. The Federal authorities and Federal writers have almost invariably exaggerated our strength, our own people have been in profound ignorance of our real numbers, and there has been among some of our most distinguished leaders honest differences of opinion as to our strength at different periods. The following discussion, as to General Lee's numbers during the seven days battles, has excited great attention, not only on account of the interest in the questions involved, but also because of the standing of the distinguished soldiers who were parties to it. We have been several times urged, by those whose opinions are entitled to weight, to give the discussion a place in our Papers, in order that it may be preserved. We do so without note or comment, leaving our readers to d
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Fire, sword, and the halter. (search)
served the whole seven years for your independence. There was I born; there the sacred dead repose. It was my house, and my home, and there has your niece (Miss Griffith), who has tarried among us all this horrid war up to the present moment, met with all kindness and hospitality at my hands. Was it for this that you turned me, my young daughter and little son out upon the world without a shelter? Or was it because my husband is the grandson of the Revolutionary patriot and rebel, Richard Henry Lee, and the near kinsman of the noblest of Christian warriors, the greatest of generals, Robert E. Lee? Heaven's blessing be upon his head forever! You and your government have failed to conquer, subdue or match him; and, disappointed, rage and malice find vent on the helpless and inoffensive. Hyena-like, you have torn my heart to pieces! for all hallowed memories clustered around that homestead; and, demon-like, you have done it without even the pretext of revenge, for I never saw
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 1: ancestry. (search)
of General Henry Lee, the father of General Robert E. Lee, was the daughter of the eldest son, Philip Ludwell Lee. Richard Henry Lee, the second son, is well known to students of American history. He has been generally styled The Cicero of the Amery, the eldest, was the well-known Light-horse Harry of the Revolutionary War, the father of Robert E. Lee. He and Richard Henry Lee are frequently confounded, and their relationship has often been the subject of inquiry. Richard Henry Lee's fatheRichard Henry Lee's father, Thomas, and Henry Lee's grandfather, Henry, were brothers. The former was therefore a first cousin of the latter's father. Light-horse Harry was conspicuous in the military and civil annals of his country as a dashing dragoon in the war betweenn Washington's second Cabinet. The future cavalry leader was educated at Princeton. Dr. William Shippen writes to Richard Henry Lee from Philadelphia, August 25, 1770: I am persuaded that there is no such school as Princeton on this continent. Yo
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 4: War. (search)
The first speech his eloquent relative, Richard Henry Lee, ever made was in favor of the motion to up for the preservation of the Union. In 1861 Lee hoped and prayed that the Temple of American Liter from Fort Mason, Texas, January, 1861, to Mrs. Lee, he says: You see by a former letter that I rhing to hasten or retard it. It was hard for Lee to give up his position in the army and separatresident with the distinguished services of Colonel Lee, and urged that every effort should be, madFrancis Preston Blair to have an interview with Lee, and secure him by the tempting offer of the co placed there should fail. The reply of General Lee was simple and short, Washington-like in mrned to meet in Richmond, Va. A letter from General Lee to his wife, who was still at Arlington, Apicy they may adopt I can not conjecture. And Mrs. Lee, from Arlington, May 5, 1861 , sent the folloi commander in chief of her forces, just as General Lee had been commissioned in the Virginia force[13 more...]
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 5: invasion of Virginia. (search)
of Washington, with Arlington, the former home of General Lee, as headquarters, as well as all the country streevailed also. The sagacity, skill, and experience of Lee were taxed to the uttermost equipping and sending to s to divisions. With the map of Virginia before him, Lee studied to make a successful defensive campaign. He ck any forward movements by any of these routes. General Lee early had predicted the march of the Army of the he Shenandoah on May 23, 1861. He was a classmate of Lee's at West Point. On being graduated he was assigned n one company. In these operations of defense General Lee's whole time was employed. The larger number of here would be intrusted to others at first. To Mrs. Lee, from Richmond, June 24, 1861, he wrote: My movemeThe day after General Scott's last interview with General Lee he published General Order No. 3, which created td tender of the feelings of others. His letter to Mrs. Lee, in reply to one received from her, addressed to t
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Index. (search)
414; equestrian statue in Richmond, 415; marble statue in Lexington, 416; tributes to his memory, 416-418; his military character, 420; a great soldier, 422. Lee, General William H. F., mentioned, 29, 118, 121, 122, 261; captured, 305; mentioned, 321, 371. Lee, John, mentioned, 5. Lee, Lancelot, mentioned, 2. Lee, Lionel, mentioned, 2. Lee, Mary Custis, mentioned, 25, 26, 71, 106, 381, 411, 412. Lee, Philip, 5. Lee, Philip Ludwell, 5, 16. Lee, Richard, 2, 3, 4, 5. Lee, Richard Henry, 6, 8, 83. Lee, Robert, mentioned, 93, 108, 132, 217, 323. Lee, Stephen D., mentioned, 194. Lee, Sydney Smith, mentioned, 36, 37, 45, 76, 89, 139. Lee, Thomas, mentioned, 5, 6. Lees of Virginia, 2, Letcher, Governor, John, mentioned, 90, 101, 126, 318. Liberty Hall Academy, 405. Ligny, battle of, 424. Lincoln, Abraham, elected President, 83; mentioned, 96, 103, 136, 137, 157, 166, 169, 170, 175, 176, 177, 197, 207, 218, 219, 221; warning to Hooker, 240; mentioned
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 80 (search)
c declaration of independence by the Colonies in Congress, was made by the Legislature of the same State, the 22d of April, 1776. Virginia was the next, and on the 15th of May, unanimously instructed her delegates in Congress to propose the declaration without waiting for the joint declaration. Virginia assumed her own sovereignty, and at once proceeded to provide for a constitution and bill of rights for her own people. The mover in Congress for a declaration of independence, was Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia. The Declaration was written by Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, and the General whose wisdom and whose sword won the battles which established it, was George Washington, a Virginian. North Carolina and Virginia, and their Southern associate States, peopled by the descendants and kindred of these great southerners, are in arms for the same independence for which the treachery and tyranny of the North have demanded from them a new declaration, and the dedication anew of lif
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Mrs. Henrietta E. Lee's letter to General David Hunter on the burning of her house. (search)
who served the whole seven years for your independence. There was I born; there the sacred dead repose. It was my house and my home, and there has your niece (Miss Griffith) who has tarried among us all this horrid war up to the present time, met with all kindness and hospitality at my hands. Was it for this that you turned me, my young daughter and little son out upon the world without a shelter? Or was it because my husband is the grandson of the Revolutionary patriot and rebel, Richard Henry Lee, and the near kinsman of the noblest of Christian warriors, the greatest of Generals, Robert E. Lee? Heaven's blessing be upon his head forever. You and your Government have failed to conquer, subdue or match him; and disappointment, rage and malice find vent on the helpless and inoffensive. Hyena like, you have torn my heart to pieces! for all hallowed memories clustered around that homestead, and, demon-like, you have done it without even the pretext of revenge, for I never saw
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