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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 215 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 180 0 Browse Search
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) 135 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 132 0 Browse Search
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert 100 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 92 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 87 1 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 72 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 59 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 56 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Glowing tribute to General R. E. Lee. (search)
who had so often ridden old Traveler through their midst. I dare not, therefore, repeat the story of his fame to you who shared it in some part on every field of glory or in the tented camp, or on the long march or in the cheerless bivouac. Precious as earth can give. Rather let me speak of him as I remember him—a memory as precious as earth can give—and lest I pitch my key too high, let me go back to my boyhood's happy days, when at school near Arlington, I used to see Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Lee ride over on his chesnut sorrel from Arlington to Seminary Hill, near Alexandria, alone, quietly dismount, tie his horse to the fence and enter the little chapel, taking his seat near by me, as Sunday after Sunday was his custom, whenever he happened to be at home on furlough. At that time he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Cavalry, and a little later he became Colonel of the First, as the following letter shows: Arlington, Washington City P. O., April 20, 1861. Honorabl
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The natal day of General Robert Edward Lee (search)
yan's beautiful Southern songs, The Sword of Robert Lee, was placed among the numbers on the programsary was commemorated to-day. The memory of Robert Lee, who led the grandest army on to victory, an a soldier and had a soldiers' reverence for Robert Lee. If these few remarks could add anything to nner, Father Ryan's noble poem, The Sword of Robert Lee. Continuing, Dr. Tichenor said that he fea beautiful tribute penned to the memory of General Lee, in answer to the New York Sun's attack, by The following was the poem: The birthday of Lee. Mary Ashley Townsend What singer's song, How history. It has always seemed to me that Robert Lee, born a century after, was the twin brother n the future, as we have been in the past. General Lee was never greater when he passed along the uth, from the surrender at Appomattox, held General Lee as great, if not greater than before. Our thought of the gathering was the picture of Robert Lee, with a wreath of arbor vitae beneath and a [4 more...]