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The Daily Dispatch: September 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], The late battles. (search)
Gen. Lee.
--A correspondent of the Charleston Courier, writing from the army, says of Gen. Lee:
You cannot imagine a plainer or more unostentatious looking man than the Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate armies--General Lee.
Take a human form, say five feet eight inches in height, its constituents well knit togetherGen. Lee:
You cannot imagine a plainer or more unostentatious looking man than the Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate armies--General Lee.
Take a human form, say five feet eight inches in height, its constituents well knit together, full in its proportions, and yet without superfluity.
Add to it a well-shaped, squarely-built head, with a front whose every line is marked with energy and genius, a pair of keen, dark eyes — brown in the parlor, but black in the field — that seem to embrace everything at a glance; a handsomely-shaped nose, such as Napoleon likGeneral Lee.
Take a human form, say five feet eight inches in height, its constituents well knit together, full in its proportions, and yet without superfluity.
Add to it a well-shaped, squarely-built head, with a front whose every line is marked with energy and genius, a pair of keen, dark eyes — brown in the parlor, but black in the field — that seem to embrace everything at a glance; a handsomely-shaped nose, such as Napoleon liked to see on his Generals; a mouth indicative of an iron will, and a countenance whose natural expression is one of gentleness and benevolence; cover the head, mouth, and lower part of the face with a heavy growth of short gray hair; invest the whole figure with grace, and an unassuming consciousness of strength, purpose, and posi