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The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Missouri Convention-report of the Committee on Federal Relations. (search)
Gen. Henry Lee. Our readers are aware that there is a preposition before the Legislature to remove the remains of General Lee from Cumberland Island, in Georgia, to his native State, Virginia. We are not aware of the shape which the proposition has assumed; but we take it for granted an act will be passed and a sum of money appropriated. General Lee died in the year 1818, at the house of Mrs. Shaw, the grand-daughter of General Nathaniel, Green, on Cumberland Island. He had been to the West Indies to recover his health, which had been in a low condition for many years. We believe he never entirely recovered from the injuries which he received from the Baltimore mob in 1814. He was on his way back, when his illness became so serious that he stopped at Cumberland Island. He was most hospitably received and entertained by the grand-daughter of his great commander, and his last moments were soothed by the attentions of devoted friends. Hither to, little has been known with