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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Monument to General Robert E. Lee. (search)
ld. As their inquiries have resulted in the selection of M. Mercie as the sculptor, and the completion of his statue, a histl committee. A plaster cast of it was ultimately sent to M. Mercie, and, of course, was invaluable in getting the shape and dolph, Miss E. B. Nicholas and Colonel Archer Anderson. Mercie's First model. Miss Nicholas, treasurer of the Ladies' st year is for a tomb to be erected in Constantinople. Mons. Mercie is a painter as well as a sculptor. He is a rapid worklt, airy figure, the opposite in personal appearance to Mons. Mercie; but, like him, he is of easy and graceful address, witoard, Miss Randolph, in a personal interview, requested Mons. Mercie to replace this group with a figure of Liberty, taken fd for an impersonation of the South. These suggestions Mons. Mercie soon elaborated into a beautiful group. Let us hope th A. Early. Colonel Anderson was requested to write to Mercie informing him that it was the desire of the association to
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Robert Edward Lee. (search)
eful days gave that supreme proof of a greatness of soul as much above depression under reverses as elation in success. In such moments the army feel the lofty genius of their leader. They acknowledge his royal right to command. They recognize their proud privilege to follow and obey. To such leaders only is it given to form heroic soldiers. Such were the ragged, half-starved men in gray who stood with Lee at Sharpsburg. It is a vision of some such moment, perhaps, that our sculptor, Mercie, has caught with the eye of genius, and fixed in imperishable bronze. The General has ridden up, it seems to me, in some pause of battle, to the swelling crest of the front line, and, while the eyes of his soldiers are fastened on him in keen expectancy, but unwavering trust, the great leader—silent and alone with his dread responsibility—is scanning, with calm and penetrating glance, the shifting phases and chances of the stricken field. Such is the commanding figure which will presently
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Robert E. Lee. (search)
Robert E. Lee. The Estimate of the Southern leader by a Canadian. The Week, of Canada, contains the following interesting article by T. E. Moberly on Robert E. Lee, suggested by the unveiling of his statue at Richmond: On the 29th of May, at Richmond, Virginia, the French sculptor Mercie's equestrian statue of the immortal Lee was unveiled. The world needs no monument to perpetuate the unfading memory of this gentle, noble, gifted man. So long as this Northern continent endures, the name, the genius, and the character of Lee shall wield their potent sway upon the mind of man, and long after his puny detractors have crumbled into the dust, and avenging time has blotted out their names and memories from the records of the past-in each succeeding age the human heart will on such occasions respond to the sentiment of the poet: The heart ran o'er with silent worship of the great of old! The dead, but sceptered, sovereigns who still rule our spirits from their urns, and pay