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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Nineteenth of January
The Nineteenth of January.
Lee's birth-day.
The Second public observance of the anniversary of the birth of Robert E. Lee.
The anniversary of the birth of General Robert Edward Lee, was again observed throughout Virginia, on January 19th, 1892.
In many of the cities and towns there were military parades, (despite of drenching rain,) and the banks and public offices in all were closed.
The Confederate Veteran Corps of the city of New York, and the Confederate Army and Navy Association of Baltimore, Maryland, each commemorated the occasion by a banquet with reverential exercises.
The day is now by statute, a legal holiday in the States of North Carolina and Georgia as well as in Virginia, and the day was observed in Raleigh and Atlanta, and doubtless in other southern cities of which the Richmond papers have not as yet given report.
The accounts of the observance which follow, have been compiled from the reports published in the issues of the Richmond Dispatch and Ti