{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Pass L V6 2\\nBook Ll/Li/^ _", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "CEREMONIES\\nroyNECTED WITH\\nTHE INAUGURATION OF THE MAUSOLEUM AND THE UNVEILING\\nOF THE RECUMBENT FIGURE\\nGENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE,\\nAT\\nWASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY,\\nLexington, Va.. June 28. 1883.\\nORATION OF JOHN W. DANIEL, LL D,\\nHISTORICAL SKETCH\\nLee Memorial Association.\\nLYNCHBURG, VA.\\nJ.. P. B..F.L1. A Co., Printeb.\\n1883.", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "L4(^\\n1\\n.L4L44.", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "HISTORICAL SKETCH\\nOF THE\\nLee Memorial Association,\\nBY\\nW. ALLAN,\\nR MBrnbE-r of the ExECUtlva CainrnlttBa,\\nGesteral Robert Edward Lee was prostrated by his last\\nillness on September 28, 1870. lie died two weeks later, on\\nthe morning of October 12. On October 15 he was buried\\nbeneath the cliapel of Washington College, now Washington\\nand Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. This place was\\nselected by Mrs. Lee after the authorities of the College had\\nplaced at her disposal any part of the grounds she might prefer.\\nThe day, though full of the glory of autumn, was the most\\nmournful in the annals of Lexington. A vast concourse, com-\\nprising the entire population of the town and the vicinity, with\\ndelegations from other places, followed, with sadness and tears,\\nthe remains of General Leo to the tomb. The funeral services\\nwere conducted by the Rev. W. iST. Pendleton, D. D., (late\\nBrigadier General and Chief of Artillery of the Army of North-\\nern Virginia,) the rector of Grace Episcopal Church, of which\\nGeneral Lee was a member. The body was deposited in a vault\\nprepared for the purpose.\\nOn the day of the funeral a large number of ex-Confederate\\nsoldiers assembled in the court-house at Lexington, and after\\ngiving expression to the love and veneration of the South for\\nGeneral Lee, and to the sorrow at his death, resolved to take\\nsteps to erect a monument in honor of their great leader. .They\\nfelt that even in the midst of poverty and disaster, no labor\\ncould be more grateful, no duty more sacred, than that of\\nmaking manifest to the future, in some enduring v;ay, tlie love\\nand admiration of his countrymen for the character and genius\\nof Robert E. Lee.", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "^--At this meeting was formed the LeeMemoeial Association-,\\nand the following were appointed an Executive Committee to\\ncarry into effect the objects of the Association\\nGen. W. N. Pendleton, Chief Artillery, A. N. V.\\nCapt. J. J. White, Liberty Hall Vols., 4tli Va. Reg t.\\nCol. J. K. Edmondson, 2Tth Va. Reg t.\\nCol. W. Preston Johnston, Staff of President Davis.\\nCapt. A. Gi ahara, Rockbridge Artillery.\\nMaj. Jas. B. Dorman, C. S. A.\\nLt.-Col. W. Allan, Chief Ord. Officer, 2nd Corps, A. N. V.\\nCapt. J. C. Bonde, 27th Va. Reg t.\\nCapt. C. A. Davidson, 1st Va. Battalion.\\nLt.-Col. Wm. M. McLaughlin, Artillery, C. S. A.\\nLt.-Col. J. W. Massie, 51st Va. Reg t.\\nW. A. Anderson, Liberty Hall Vols., 4th Va. Reg t.\\nThis Committee met October 24, ISTO, at the office of Capt.\\nC. A. Davidson, and organized by electing Gen. W. N. Pen-\\ndleton as chairman, and Capt. Charles A. Davidson as secretary.\\nThe Committee, in accordance with the duties entrusted to it,\\nthen elected the following officers of the Lee Memorial\\nAssociation\\nPresident Gen. Jno. C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky.\\nVice-Pres t-at-Large Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, of Vii-ginia.\\n^7-. T) u -c 1^- i Gen. Jubal A. Earlv,\\nVicc-rrests from v irgmia, ri i i^r m. tt ti i\\nCol. Walter 11. lay lor.\\nVice-Pres t from Louisiana, Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard.\\nN. Carolina, Gen. D. H. Hill.\\nS. Carolina, Gen. Wade Hampton.\\nGeorgia, Gen, John B. Gordon.\\nAlabama, Gen. W. J. Hardee.\\nMississippi, Gen. S. I). Lee.\\nTennessee, R. S. Ewell.\\nTexas, Gen. Jno. B. Hood.\\nMaryland, Gen. I. R. Trimble.\\nMissouri, Gen. J. S. Marmaduko.\\nArkansas, Gen. J. C. Tappau.\\nTreasurer, C. M. Figgat, Esq., Cashier Bank of Lexington, Va.", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "A committee was appointed to prepare an address for pnbli-\\ncation, setting forth the purposes of tlic Association, and an-\\notlier committee was instructed to draw up a charter, and to\\nsubmit it to the Legishiture of Virginia for enactment.\\nMi s. Marj Custis Lee M as requested by the Executive Com-\\nmittee to indicate her preference in regard to the monument to\\nbe erected by the Association, and at her suggestion, Mr. Ed. V.\\nValentine, the distinguished Virginian sculptor, was sent for.\\nMr. Valentine had, the preceding summer, modeled a bust of\\nGeneral Lee from life, which was considered an admirable\\nwork of art. Mrs. Lee, after examining a number of drawings\\nand photographs of celebrated works ot art, suggested, as a\\nsuitable design for the monument, a recumbent figure of Gen-\\neral Lee lying asleep upon the field of battle. The design was\\nsuggested to her by Ranch s figure of Louise of Prussia in the\\nmausoleum at Charlottenburg. This figure of Lee, some-\\nwhat above life size, was to be placed upon a sarcophagus suit-\\nably inscribed and decorated. The whole was to be of white\\nmarble and was designed to be placed over the remains of Gen-\\neral Lee.\\nThe suggestions of Mrs. Lee, both as to the monument and\\nas to the artist, having been cordially adopted by the Associa-\\ntion, Mr. Valentine was, on November 24, 1870, requested to\\nprepare a design for the tomb of Gen. R. E. Lee, proposed\\nto be erected, and an estimate of the probable cost of the same.\\nMeasures were also taken for collecting from the admirers of\\nGeneral Lee, the funds needed for erecting the monument.\\nLiberal responses were received from a number of sources,\\namong which was a donation of $1000 from W. W. Corcoran,\\nEsq., of AVashington, and the Executive Committee became\\nsatisfied that the means needed for the work could be obtained.\\nOn June 23, 1871, Mr. Valentine, having completed a model\\nof the proposed figure and sarcophagus, appeared before the\\nExecutive Committee and submitted it together with an esti-\\nmate of cost. This latter amounted to $15,000. The model\\nwas approved and accepted, and Mr. Valentine was commis--\\nsioned to go on with the work.", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "By tlie fall of 1S72 Mr. Valentine had completed the cast of,\\nthe monument in plaster and was ready to put it into marble.\\nSome $5,000 had up to this time been contributed to the Asso-\\nciation, and activ*e steps were now taken to collect the remain-\\nder of the sum needed to secure the completion of the figure.\\nThe Association of the Army of Northern Virginia, at its\\nmeeting in Richmond, October 31, 1872, resolved\\nThat the sarcophagus now in course of preparation by our\\nVirginian artist, Valentine, to be placed over the tomb of Lee,\\nat Lexington, commends itself to especial favor as promising,\\nfrom the beauty of the design, and the skill of the sculptor, to\\nbe a worth} memorial of our departed chief.\\nThat for the purpose of assuring and expediting the com-\\npletion of this noble work of art, to be placed, as a fitting token\\nof a whole people s love and homage, above the ashes of their\\ndead liero, we recommend to the ladies of the South to hold\\nmemorial meetings on the next anniversary of the birth of\\nGen. H. E. Lee, and to take such measures as shall to them\\nseem best for collecting money on that day to be specially ap-\\npropriated to the decoration of his tomb by the erection of the\\nsarcophagus.\\nThe Memorial Association in an address united their voice\\nwith that of the Association of the A. N. V.\\nThe ladies of Lexington promptly responded by having a\\nfair and a cantata in the winter of lS72- 3, the proceeds of\\nwliich, amounting to over $800, were turned over to the Asso-\\nciation. This sum was still further increased by private sub-\\nscriptions. The example thus set was followed in many other\\nplaces. On the 20th January, 1873, contributions were made\\nin a number of Southern cities and towns to the object of the\\nAssociation. Li Savannah, Gen. Hampton, by invitation, de-\\nlivered a lecture upon Gen. Lee, which added over $500 to the\\nfunds of the x\\\\ssociation. The ladies of Leesburg, Va., of\\nAlexandria, Va., and of Palmyra, Missouri, sent handsome\\ncontributions. Similar responses came from many other places.\\nDuring the spring and summer contributions continued to come\\nin. Among these was a liberal donation of $500 from W. H.", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "McLellan, Esq., of New Orleans. Admirers of Gen. Lee\\nabroad also contributed liberally. Mr. W. T. McCanslane, of\\nGlasgow, Scotland, took particular interest in the matter, and\\nthrough his efforts nearly $700 were added to the funds of the\\nAssociation. A considerable sum was realized from a steel\\nengraving of Gen. Lee publislied by Bustwick Co., of Cin-\\ncinnati, and sold under the authority of the Association; also,\\nfrom the sale of Personal Ileminiscences of Gen. Lee by\\nRev. J. W. Jones, D. D., a part of the proceeds of which book\\nM cre turned over to the Executive Committee.\\nAn act incorporating the Association had been passed by the\\nVirginia Legislature and approved January 14, 1871. By this\\nit was enacted, That Wui. N. Pendleton, F. W. M. OoUiday,\\nC. S. Venable, J. W. Massie, Cliarles A. Davidson, Wm. Mc-\\nLaughlin, J. B. Dorman, Wm. Allan, Wm. P. Johnston, J. 0.\\nBoude, J. J. White, A. Graham, Jr., Wm. Terry, Wm. A.\\nAnderson, Jolm S. iI\u00c2\u00bbIos!)y, John Ejhols, Thos. S. Flournoy,\\nRobert Stiles, James K. E Imondson, and such other persons\\nas they shall associate with them, be and they are herel)y incor-\\nporated by the name and style of The Lee Memorial Associa-\\ntion. The usual corporate powers were confei-red upon them,\\nand the officers of the corporation were to be a president,\\nfifteen vice-presidents, a secretary, a treasurer, and an e.Kecu-\\ntive committee of nineteen members. The persons named\\nabove were declared the E.Kecutivc Committee, with fuJl powers\\nto appoint officers and till vacancies.\\nThe Association organized under the charter May 31, 1873.\\nAt this meetino; Gen. Jos. E. Johnston was elected President\\nCD\\nof the Association to succeed Gen. John C. Breckenridge, who\\nhad died. Col. Bjlivar Christian and Capt. AValter Bowie were\\nelected members of the Executive Committee in place of Col.\\nJ. W. Massie (deceased) and of CoL John S. Mosby (unable to\\nserve). Gen. Pendleton was elected Chairman of the Execu\\ntive Committee, C. M. Figgat, Esq., Treasurer, and Capt. C.\\nA. Davidson, Secretary. Subsequently the Rev. J. W, Jones,\\nD. D., was made a member of the Executive Committee in\\nplace of Major Robt. Stiles.", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "The funds coDtribiited up to this time were sufficient to jus-\\ntify the committee in ordering the completion of the figure in\\nmarble, and in Julv, 1S73, tlie artist was instructed to go for-\\nward and finish Lis task.\\nOn April 1, 1S75, Mr. Valentine reported tlie work done,\\nand the Association took steps to have the monument brought\\nto Lexington. At this time tlie students of Richmond Col-\\nlege made application for the privilege of taking charge of\\nthe monument when it is sent up to Lexington, and bearing\\nthe expenses of its transportation. This kind and courteous\\nproposal was cordially accepted by the Executive Committee,\\nand the monument was brought by canal from Richmond un-\\nder an escort of the students of Richmond College. The\\nescort was composed of Messrs. J. T. E. Thornhill, W. M.\\nTurpin, R. H. Pitt, A. M. Harris, H. C. Smith and J. W.\\nMartin, of Virginia S. S. Woodward, of Xew Jersey R. T.\\nHanks, of Alabama, and C. N. Donaldson, of South Carolina.\\nAs* the figure was being taken from the artist s studio to the\\nboat landing in Richmond, on April 13, a large number of the\\ncitizens of Richmond, headed by the students of Richmond\\nCollege and the First Virginia Regiment, followed in proces-\\nsion to honor the memory of Lee. The monument reached\\nLexington April 17, 1S75. Mr. Thornhill, in appropriate\\nterms, delivered it to the committee, on whose behalf ex-Gov.\\nJohn Letcher responded. Addresses were also made on this\\noccasion by Lt. Gen. Early and Col. \\\\V. Preston Johnston.\\nThe monument was temporarily stored in a room upon the\\ngrounds of Washington and Lee University, and confided, for\\nthe time, to the guardianship of the students of that institution.\\nWhen the completion of the figure had been assured, the\\nExecutive Committee turned their attention to providing a\\nsuitable mausoleum in which it might be placed. Gen. R. D.\\nLilly was appointed agent to collect funds for this purpose in\\nthe winter of lS7i-5. Through his efforts a handsome sum\\nwas realized, and in February, 1875, a committee was appoint-\\ned to invite from architects designs for a suitable mausoleum.", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "9\\nThe chairman of this committee, Prof. J. J. White, devoted\\niimch time and labor to conferences and correspondence with\\neminent architects on this subject; and many suggestions were\\nproposed to the committee. Prominent among these was a\\ndesign kindly presented in December, 1875, by Mr. J. L.\\nSmithmeyer, of Washington, which seemed to the Executive\\nCommittee to be marked by such taste and beauty that it was\\ndetermined to adopt it if the estimated cost should be found\\nnot greater than the sum the Association might expect to re-\\nalize from contributions within a reasonable time. It was\\nfound, however, (in August, 1870,) when the plans and estimates\\nwere fully made, that the cost of this building would be $45,-\\n000, which the committee deemed to be far in excess of their\\nprobable resources. Meantime donations had come in from\\nvarious places. The ladies of Baltimore sent, in May, 1875,\\n$1,319.82, the result of an entertainment given by them. Sub-\\nsequently there came from Charleston, S. C, $1,107.11, and\\nfrom ISTew Orleans, $1,548, from Mobile, $539.65, and valua-\\nble donations from Washington, D. C, Staunton, Va., and\\nCamden, S. C. A handsome contribution (over $500) came\\nfrom Texas, where Mr. J. S. Sullivan, of Galveston, displayed\\ngreat and efficient interest in the matter. The committee were\\nalso indebted to Cyrus H. McCormick, Esq., of Chicago, for\\n$500, and to W. A. Stuart, Esq., of Saltville, Ya., for $100, as\\nwell as to many other gentlemen for smaller sums. In the\\nsummer of 1876 it seemed to the Executive Committee, from\\ntheir progress^ so far, that they might expect the contributions\\nfor a mausoleum to reach an aggregate of $10,000 or $15,000,\\nbut not more. They therefore laid aside Mr. Smithmeyer s\\nplan and directed their committee to select one more in ac-\\ncordance with their means.\\nA year now passed, and in May, 1877, J. Crawford Xeilsou,\\nEsq., a leading architect of Baltimore, offered to furnish a de-\\nsign for the mausoleum. Mr. Neilson s kind offer was accept-\\ned and he was invited to visit Lexington. After full confer-\\nence and investigation Mr. Xeilson proposed as the design for\\nthe mausoleum a rectangular apse to be placed in the rear of", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10\\ntlie cljapel of the University, where General Lee was buried.\\nHis plan was approved and adopted by the Association. As\\ndescribed at the time, it consists of a fire proof apse, an ad-\\ndition to the rear of the chapel, conforming in material and de-\\nsign to the chapel itself. The lower story is a crypt of massive\\nstone masonry, and the superstructure is built of brick. The\\ninterior is encrusted with brick and Cleveland stone, of sub-\\ndued tints, and is lighted from above. The whole constitutes\\na solemn and tender memorial of the warrior who rests in\\npeace beneath, surrounded by the ashes of those who were\\ndearest on earth.\\nTlie ceremonies of laying tlie corner-stone took place on\\nNovember 29, 1S7S. On tiiis occasion Prof. J.J. White made\\na statement of the work of tlie Association, and then introduced\\nU. S. Senator R. E, Withers, who delivered an eloquent ad-\\ndress. After this, Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, the President of the\\nAssociation, assisted by the lion. J. llandolph Tucker, pro-\\nceeded to lay the corner-stone. This is on the northeast corner\\nof the building, about ten feet above tlie ground.\\nIn Februar}^, 1879, the Association lost by death Capt. C. A.\\nDavidson, its secretary, and one of the most active and efficient\\nmembers of the Executive Committee. His contributions of\\ntime and money to the Association had been veiy liberal, his\\nlabors in its behalf earnest and useful, and these had extended\\nover the entire period from its organization to his death. A.\\nT. Barclaj ensign 4th Va. Eegiment, was elected to fill the\\nvacancy thus caused in the Executive Committee, and Capt.\\nJ. C. Boude was appointed secretarj\\nIn January, 1879, a statement of the condition of the work\\nwas prepared by Col. W. Preston Johnston, and published, and\\nadditional subscriptions were asked for to complete it. Among\\nthe generous responses was that of W. W. Corcoran, Esq., who\\nhaving heretofore given $1,000 for the figure, now added $1,000\\nfor the mausoleum. Moro Philips, Esq., of Philadelphia,\\ndonated |500, and Geo. W. Childs, Esq., of Philadelphia, W.\\nC. Hives, Esq., and F. R. Rivers, Esq., of New York, Robt.\\nGarrett, Esq., of Baltimore, Hon. Wm. Milnes, Hon. J. R.", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "11\\nTucker, Prof. C. A. Graves, Jno. D. Sterrett, Esq., and Col. J.\\nD. H. Ross, of Virginia, and Col. R. G. Cole, of Georgia, each\\n$100. Several of the resident members of the Executive Com-\\nmittee had each contributed previously $100. A considerable\\namount was added by means of musical entertainments kindly\\ngiven by the ladies of Lexington, under the direction of Mrs.\\nJudge McLaughlin. Additions were also made to the funds\\nthrough some entertainments given at different places by Profs.\\nCromwell and Wheeler.\\nThe building of the mausoleum was carried forward during\\n1879 and 1880, but the funds of the Association became ex-\\nhausted before the iron roof and the interior were complete.\\nLi the spring of 1882 the Association made a proposition to\\nthe trustees of Wasliington and Lee University, on the grounds\\nof which the mausoleum stands, offering to transfer the build-\\ning and monument to them in perpetual trust npon their com-\\npleting the mausoleum. From a statement embodied in this\\nproposition, it appeared that the Association had collected and\\nexpended between $23,000 and $24,000 upon the figure and\\nmausoleum, and that $5,000 were needed in addition to com-\\n])lete the entire work. This proposal was accepted by the\\ntrustees of the University on April 11, 1882, and the necessary\\nappropriation made. The agreement provided That upon\\nthe completion of the mausoleum and its inauguration under\\nthe auspices of this Association the title to, and the care and\\ncustody of, both the mausoleum and the marble statue of\\nGeneral Lee shall be vested in the corporation of Washington\\nand Lee University, upon the sacred trust that the mausoleum\\nshall be preserved as a perpetual place of sepulture for the re-\\nmains of Gen. R. E. Lee, and of Mrs. Lee, and of such other\\nmembers of their family as it maybe the pleasure of the family\\nto have interred there, and that the building and statue shall\\nreceive from the authorities of the University such care and\\nattention from time to time as shall be needful for their preser-\\nvation and upon the further trust that neither the mausoleum,\\nnor the ground upon which it is erected, nor the statue and\\nappurtenances of the mausoleum, shall ever be in any way, or", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "J 2\\nto any extent, liable for any claiin against, or deLt of said Uni-\\nversity, or be cliarged with an^^ mortgage, deed of trust, or\\nother encumbrance.\\nThe Executive Committee of the Lee Memorial Association\\nthus finally secured the completion of their labor of love. For\\ntwelve years it had been in progress. Many doubts had at\\ntimes discouraged, many difficulties had delayed them, but the\\nsatisfaction now derived from a certainty of success more than\\ncompensated for all these. Measures were taken for the com-\\npletion of the building and the placing of the figure, and the\\n28th of June, 1883, was selected as the day for unveiling it to\\nthe public.\\nIn accordance with a long cherished design, tlie Hon. Jeffer-\\nson Davis, the former President of the Confederate States, was\\ninvited to deliver on that day an address upon General Lee s\\nmilitary career. The Hon. Jno. AV. Daniel, of Yirginia, was\\ninvited to deliver, on the same occasion, an address on General\\nLee s life and character as a citizen and civilian. Ex-President\\nDavis, though deeplj^ interested in the occasion and anxious to\\ndo all in his power to honor the memory of Lee, was finally\\nforced by advancing years and precarious health to decline, and\\nto Major Daniel was committed the whole of the splendid\\ntheme.\\n\\\\J The mausoleum was complete, the monument had been put\\nin place, and the committee looked forward with pleasure to\\nthe day M hich should witness the end of their work and the\\nunveiling of the figure to the public. Ere this day arrived,\\nhowever, their venerable chairman. Gen. W. N Pendleton,\\nwas summoned to join his great commander. His death on\\nJanuary 15, 1883, closed a long and distinguished career of hon-\\norable service to his generation, both in war and peace. He\\nacted as Chairman of the Executive Committee of this Associ-\\nation, from its organization, for more than twelve years, and\\nwas most zealous and active in promoting its objects. The\\nvarious relations in which he had stood to General Lee, inten-\\nsified his interest in the purposes of the Association, and no\\none worked more earnestly for their attainment.", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "13\\nJudge Wm. JVLeLaughlin was elected chairman to fill the\\nplace left vacant by the death of General Pendleton.\\nThe iinal arrangements having been completed under the\\nsupervision of the architect, Mr. Xeilson, and the artist, Mr.\\nValentine, the monument was formally transferred to the As-\\nsociation by Mr. Valentine on May 7, lS83, and was accepted\\non their behalf bv the lion. AV A, Anderson, who in fittino-\\nterms gave expression to the appreciation and admiration felt\\nby all present as they looked upon the beautiful creation of the\\ngenius of Valentine and realized the perfection of the arrange-\\nments made by the skill and taste of Mr. Neilson for its pre-\\nservation and display.\\nThe dimensions of the mausoleum on the ground plan are\\n31x36 feet. The lower story, which is constructed of coraline\\nlimestone to correspond with the basement of the chapel, is a\\ncrypt containing cells or receptacles for twenty-eight bodies.\\nThree of these contain the ashes of Gen, R. E. Lee, Mrs. Mary\\nCustis Lee, and Miss Agnes Lee. x\\\\d joining the crypt, but\\nunderneath the chapel, is. the room used as an ofHce by General\\nLee during the later years of his presidency of Washington\\nCollege, which is preserved as he left it on the day he was\\ntaken ill.\\nThe chamber containing the monument is directly over the\\ncrypt and is of brick like the corresponding part of the chapel,\\nThe floor of the chamber is tessellated with white-veined\\nmarble and encaustic tiles. The walls consist of panels of\\ngrayish Indiana marble enframed in dark Baltimore pressed\\nbrick, and surmounted by semicircular compartments which\\ncan be used for hasso-rilievo medallions. In one of these com-\\npartments, immediately facing the chapel, is inscribed the\\nname of General Lee, together with the dates of his birth and\\ndeath. Immediately around the base of the sarcophagus is a\\nborder of dark tiling. The tessellated floor is on the level of\\nthe platform of the chapel, which is raised three feet above\\nthe floor of the audience chamber.\\nThe figure and couch, which are of statuary marble, are", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14\\nmounted on a sarcophagus simple almost to severity in its\\norder, and which rests on a granite base course. The sides of\\nthe sarcophagus are composed of two marble panels each, the\\nspace between the panels bearing, in hasso-rilievo^ on the one\\nside the Lee coat of arms, and on the other the arms of Vir-\\nginia. The head and foot consist of one panel each, the former\\nbeing ornamented by a simple cross, the latter bearing the\\nlegend\\nROBERT EDWARD LEE.\\nBorn\\nJanuary 19, 1807;\\nDied\\nOctober 12, 1870.\\nThe figure is over life size, and rests upon a heavily draped\\ncouch in an attitude of easy repose, tlie head being elevated to\\na natural position, with the face turned slightly to the right.\\nThe feet are lightly crossed. The right forearm lies across the\\nbreast the hand holding by simple weight tlie blanket which\\ncovers the lower part of the body wliile the left arm is fully\\nextended along the couch, this hand holding the hilt of a\\nI sword. The contour of tlie limbs is easily discerned through\\nthe covering which falls over the lower part of the body.\\nAn anti-chamber connects the monument chamber with the\\nchapel and is separated from the former by iron doors. A\\nlarge arched opening, heavily curtained, leads from the cliapel\\ninto this anti-chamber. The monument is so placed and the\\nlight, which falls from the roof, so arranged, that when the\\ncurtains are drawn and the iron doors open, the figure can be\\nseen from nearly every part of the floor and galleries of the\\nchapel.\\nThe 28th of June, the day for the public opening of the\\nmausoleum, was the day after the Commencement of Wash-\\nington and Lee University, the exercises of which had already\\ndrawn many persons to Lexington. In addition to these a\\nmuch larger concourse of ex-Confederate soldiers gathered from\\nevery quarter on the day itself. All old Confederates and all\\nadmirers of General Lee were invited to attend, and special\\ncards were sent to all former cabinet officers of the Confederate", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "15\\nStates, the general oflScers of the Confederate army, the princi-\\npal officers of the Confederate navy, the members of General\\nLee s staff, the Governors of the Southern States, tlie execu-\\ntive and judicial officers of Virginia, and the representatives in\\nCongress and the Senators from Virginia. No effort was\\nspared hy the people of Lexington and Rockbridge county to\\nhonor the day. Business was suspended, and the people devo-\\nted themselves to the exercises of the day, and to entertaining\\nthe crowds that came from a distance. Special trains on the\\nRichmond Alleghany and the Shenandoah Valley railroads\\nbrought numbers from every point within reach. A large\\nnumber of the survivors of the Stonewall Brigade, as well as\\nof other commands of the Army of Northern Virginia, were\\npresent. Prominent among those on the ground were the\\nMaryland Line, consisting of the survivors of the soldiers and\\nsailors of that State, who had served in the Confederate army\\nand navy. Besides residents of the town and count} there\\nwere present among the distinguished persons from a distance.\\nGen. Wade Hampton, Gen. J. A. Earlj^, Gen. Fitz. Lee, Gen.\\nW. IL F. Lee, Gen. Wm. Terry, Gen. Geo. H. Steuart, Gen.\\nM. D. Corse, Gen. R. D. Lilly, Col. Wm. Xorris, Chief of the\\nConfederate Signal Bureau, Col. H. E. Peyton and Col. T. M.\\nR. Talcott, of General Lee s Staff, Col. W.^H. Palmer, of Gen.\\nA. P. Hill s Staff, Capt. R. E. Lee, Capt. J. H. 11 Figgat,\\nMaj. E. L. Rogers, Judge H. W. Bruce, Judge J. IL Fulton,\\nHon. C. R. Breckinridge of Arkansas, Fatlier Ryan, Rev. Dr.\\nAlexander, Leigh Robinson, Esq., John J. Williams, Esq., C.\\nW. Button, Esq., and D. Gardner Tyler, Esq. Mrs. Gen,\\nStonewall Jackson, Mrs. Gen. J. E. B. Stewart, Mrs. Gen.\\nGeo. E. Pickett and Mrs. Carlisle (formerly Mrs. Gen. Geo. B.\\nAnderson), were also present. The venerable philanthropist,\\nW. W. Corcoran, Esq,, of AVashington, and j;he venerable ex-\\nGov. Wm. Smith, of Virginia, honored the occasion by their\\npresence.\\nIn the morning a procession was formed under General\\nHampton as chief marshall, which visited the grave of Stone-\\nwall Jackson in the Lexington Cemetery. Here were seen", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16\\nmany toncliing evidences of the devotion of his people to this\\ngreat soldier. The soldiers of the Maryland Line, under Gen.\\nG. H. Steu;\\\\rt, who had shared in many of Jackson s cam-\\npaigns, brought a liandsome bronze tablet inscribed with the\\narms of Maryland, wliicli they placed at the head of his grave.\\nTiie grave itself was covered with flowers and immortelles\\nplaced there by a number of ladies under the direction of Miss\\nEdmonia Waddell. The railing around it was similarly deco-\\nrated, and at each corner was a shield surrounded by an ever-\\ngreen wreath, and containing a motto furnished by Mrs. Mar-\\ngaret J. Preston. These mottoes were\\n1. Faith that could not fail nor yield,\\nWas the legend of his shield.\\nPort Republic.\\n2. From the land for which he hied,\\nHonor to the warrior dead.\\nManassas.\\n3. From the field of death and fame.\\nBorne upon his shield he came.\\nChancellorsville.\\n4. In the Valley let me lie,\\nUnderneath God s open sky.\\nLexington.\\nMore precious still was the silent tear which forced its way\\nto the eye of many an old soldier as the green grave brought\\nthe scenes of twenty years ago before his sight. Among the\\nbeautiful incidents of tlie day^was the following The daugh-\\nter of Ex-President Davis, Miss Winnie Davis, had sent to\\nGeneral Early two floral designs composed entirely of immor-\\ntelles and made to represent the Confederate battle flag. They\\nwere exquisite in design and finish. One was intended for the\\ngrave of Lee and the other for that of Jackson, General Early\\nselected Miss Carrie W, Daniel, the little ten-year-old daughter\\nof the orator of the day, to place the tribute upon Jackson s\\ngrave. The tomb of Lee had been beautifully decorated with\\nevergreens and flowers bj^ a committee of the ladies of Lex-\\nington under the direction of Mrs. Gen. Edwin G. Lee, Amid\\nthese decorations was placed the Confederate battle flag in iin-\\nmortelles. After the ceremonies of the day were over, many\\na bronzed and gray-headed soldier might have been seen culling", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "17\\nsome of these beautiful immortelles from the graves of Lee\\nand Jackson to commit as a sacred memento to the keeping of\\nhis children.\\nThe procession returned from the cemetery to the grounds\\nof Washington and Lee University, where in front of the\\ncliapel a stand and seats had been placed for the accommoda-\\ntion of the audience and speaker. The day was a propitious\\none. It was rainless, cool and bright. By 11 o clock a mass\\nof from 8,000 to 10,000 people filled the grounds. As many\\nof them as could get within sound of the orator s voice gath-\\nered about the stand, and listened Mnth absorl^ed attention. In\\ntiie absence of Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, who was detained at\\nhome by serious illness, Lt.-General Earl}^, the first Vice-Presi-\\ndent of the Association, presided. After prayer by the Rev.\\nR. J. McBryde, Gen. Early introduced Maj. Daniel, who for\\nthree hours held his audience b} the spell of his eloquence,\\nmoving it now to applause, and now to tears. At the close of\\nthe speech. Gen. Early called upon Father Ryan to recite his\\npoem, The Sword of Lee. As the poet s voice gradually\\nrose and spread over the throng the intense emotion with which\\nhis form and his words were filled spread too, and fairly thrilled\\nthe great audience.\\nThe moment for the unveiling of the figure was then an-\\nnounced by a salute fired by the survivors of the Rockbridge\\nArtillei y, who used for the purpose two guns which had con-\\nstituted a part of their armament at the first battle of Manas-\\nsas. These guns were part of the cadet battery used by\\nStonewall Jackson when a professor at the Virginia Military\\nInstitute, and are now again in the keeping of that Institution.\\nSome fifty of tlie former members of this famous artillery com-\\npany had assembled for the occasion, and under Col. Wm. T.\\nPoague, who had long been their captain, for a few moments\\nresumed their former organization and duties. What memo-\\nries of the past, what deeds of daring, and what days of toil,\\nwhat moving incidents of camp and field did the sound of\\nthose guns recall as those old soldiers looked into the faces or\\ngrasped the hands they had not seen or felt for eighteen years", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18\\nAs the guns opened fire the chapel and mausoleum were\\nthrown open, the ligure was unveiled by Miss Julia Jackson,\\n(daughter of Stonewall Jackson.) and the vast throng began to\\nmove through the building to view it. For many hours the\\ncurrent continued its steady flow, and indeed only ceased at\\nnightfall. Meantime the hospitable town and county was en-\\ntertaining the crowd of strangers. The houses of citizens of\\nthe town were everywhere thrown open, and handsome enter-\\ntainments were provided at many of them. In addition to this,\\na lunch, provided by the citizens of the county and town, was\\nserved on the University grounds to several thousand people.\\nThe evening fell upon a day forever marked in the annals of\\nLexington. It was felt by all that Yalentine s chisel had cre-\\nated a worthy memorial of Lee, and that Daniel, in words not\\nless fitting had committed it to the keeping of the future.\\nWith this day closed the active labors of the Lee Memorial\\nAssociation. It only remained for them to complete the\\ntransfer of the mausoleum and monument to the perpetual care\\nof Washington and Lee University, and to return thanks to\\nthe generous friends, who had by their contributions, rendered\\npossible a noble work. They placed on record, in fitting terms,\\ntheir high appreciation of the valuable services (services ren-\\ndered as a labor of love) of their treasurer, C. M. Figgat, Esq.;\\nof the skill and taste of J. Crawford Neilson, Esq., who placed\\nliis architectural experience gratuitously at the service of the\\nAssociation in designing and superintending the construc-\\ntion of the mausoleum of the splendid success of the artist s\\nwork, and of the oration of Major Daniel, which can receive\\nno higher, no juster commendation, than that it is worth}^ of its\\ngreat subject.\\nA great name is passing into history. As the smoke of con-\\nflict and passion passes away the world is beginning to recog-\\nnize the outlines of a character in which capacity of the first\\nrank was harmoniously united with virtue of the highest order; a\\ncharacter equally grand in victory and defeat. The Lee Memorial\\nAssociation have not looked uj)oii their work as needful to", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "19\\npreserve the fame or extend tlie influence of Lee, but have\\ndeemed it both a duty and a privilege to testify to coming gen-\\nerations the genuine affection, admiration and homage with\\nwhich his countrymen and contemporaries regard the man,\\nwho seems to them the foremost of his time in those great\\nqualities which best deserve the respect and veneration of\\nmankind.", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "PROGRAMME OF CEREMONIES\\nAT THE\\nInauguration of the Lee Mausoleum,\\nLexington, Virginia, June 28, 1883.\\nThe following gentlemen were requested to act as Marshals\\nand assistant Marshals, and to aid in the orderly conduct of tlie\\nceremonies of the day and all persons were requested to re-\\nspect their authority as such\\nChief Marshal Lieutenant-General Wade Hampton.\\nMarshah\u00e2\u0080\u0094Gen. R. D. Lilly, Col. W. T. Poague, Col. John\\nA. Gibson, Col. J. D. li. Eoss, Maj. Cliarles F. Jordan, Maj.\\nS. W. Paxton, Mr. John T. Dunlop, Mr. W. F. Johnston, Mr.\\nWm. M. Dunlap, Mr. Harry E. Moore, Mr. W. B. F. Leech,\\nMr. S. H. I-etcher, Mr. J. E. McCanley, Capt. J. H. H. Figgat,\\nCapt. T. C. Morton, Capt. Jas. A. Strain, Capt. J. G. Updike,\\nDr. Z. J. Walker, Capt. William Wade, Capt. J. P. Moore,\\nLieut. J. H. P. Jones, Mr. P. T. McLeod, Capt. W. F. Pier-\\nson, Mr. W. B. Poindexter.\\nChief of Assistant Marshals Mr. E. C. Day, of Kentucky.\\nAssistant Marshals Mr. J. M. Becker, Pennsylvania Mr.\\nR. Godson, Kentucky Mr. L. L. Campbell, Virginia, Mr. H.\\nD. Flood, Vii ginia Mr. J. T. Bngg, Louisiana; Mr. G.\\nO Bierne, West A ^irginia Mr. II. MeCrum, Virginia.\\nORDER OF EXERCISES.\\n1):30 A. M. to 10:30 A. M.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Decoration of the Tomb of Lcc\\nand Grave of fJaekson.\\n10:30 A. M.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Music on the Grounds of Washington and Lee\\nUniversity by the Virginia Military Institute band and\\nvisiting bands.\\n11 A. M.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Prayer by the Rev. R..I. McBryde, Rector of Grace\\nMemorial Churcii.", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "21\\nMUSIC.\\n11:15 A. M. -Oration hy Maj. Jolm W. Daniel.\\nMUSIC.\\n2 p. M. Figure of J. ee luiveiled, niommieutal chaiuher thrown\\nopen, and procession around the Figure.\\n3 P. M. Collation provided by the citizens of Rockbridge\\nand Lexington for Confederate veterans and military\\ncompanies.\\nSeats will be set apart and reserved in front of the stand fur\\nmilitary companies, societies, and organized bodies of veterans,\\nof whose coming the Committee may have due notice.\\nThe platform to the right of the stand M ill be set apart for\\nrepresentatives of the press. The other two small platforms\\nare for the musicians of the V. M. I. band and visiting bands.\\nThe seats upon the main stand will be reserved for\\nI. Generals of the Confederate States Army and officers of\\nthe ConfQderate States Navy.\\n11. Officers of the general Gov^ernment of the Confederate\\nStates.\\nIII. The Governor of Virginia and members of the present\\nState Government.\\nIV. Governors of any of the States of tiie Union, members\\nof the Senate or House of Kepresentatives of the Uni-\\nted States.\\ny. Members of the Board ofj Trustees and Faculty of\\nWashington and Lee University.\\nVI. Members of the Board of Visitors and Faculty of the\\nVirginia MiHtary Institute.\\nVIL Specially invited guests.\\nVIII. Members of tlie Lee Meniorial Association.\\nBy order of the Executive Committee,\\nWILLIAM McLaughlin,\\nC/iair?nan,\\nWILLIAM A. ANDERSON,\\nChairman of Committee of Arrangements.\\nJOHN C. BOUDE,\\nSeo y Ex. Com. Lee Memorial Association^", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "When the procession had retnrned from Jackson s grave to\\nthe grounds of Washington and Lee Universitj, and those form-\\ning it ]]ad taken tlie seats assigned them, the exercises were\\nopened by the Kev, R. J. McBrjde, rector of Grace Memorial\\nChurch, Lexington, Va., who offered the following prayer\\nAlmighty and Everlasting God the King of Kings and\\nLord of Lords our help in ages past, our hope for years to\\ncome to Thee glory belongeth. Thou only art worthy to be\\npraised.\\nFor Thou art from everlasting to everlasting. Thou art\\ngracious and full of compassion Thou art good to all, and Thy\\ntender mercies are over all Thy works.\\nWe praise Thee, O God we acknowledge Thee to be the\\nLord. In Thee w^e live and move, and have our being.\\nWe would render unto Thee most humble and hearty thanks\\nfor the goodly heritage Thou hast given us in this land of civil\\nand religious freedom, for the peace and prosperity within our\\nborders, and for all the innumerable manifestations of Thy\\ngoodness towards us.\\nWe would also recognize that it is our duty and privilege to\\nbegin, continue, and end all our works in Thee. And there-\\nfore this day, and upon this occasion, we would realize that\\npromotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West\\nnor from the South. God is the judge lie putteth down one\\nand setteth up another. Then praise to Thee alone, thou\\nGreat Creator, for the leader and commander of this people,\\nwhose memory we seek to preserve and whose name we honor\\nto day To Thee be all the glory for what he was and is to\\nus. O, God, Thou wast his God his soul followed hard after\\nThee Thy right hand upheld him. lie was not ashamed to\\nconfess the faith of Christ crueitied and manfully to fight un-\\nder His banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and to be\\nChrist s faithful soldier and servant. .And we pray Thee that\\nthe influence of his life and the power of his example may\\nnever die out in the land. May a double portion of his spirit\\nfall on his peo2)le, whom he loved, for whom he made such\\nsacrifices, and for whom he labored with unwearied fidelity.", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "28\\nMa} they reverence Thy name may thev retain Thee in\\ntheir thoughts may they ever live in obedience to Thy laws\\nas did Thine honored servant may they follow him as he fol-\\nlowed Christ may they love that Word which he believed,\\nand uphold the faith which he confessed may the well-being\\nof our people enlist our al)ilities as it did his; may we, like\\nhim, seek to make the world the better for our living in it. As\\nlie was subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord s\\nsake, so make us to be more and more a law-abiding people,\\nin obedience to Thy will. Give lis a like patience under afflic-\\ntions, and a like cheerful resignation to Thy blessed will, and\\nl)y well-doing may we put to silence the ignorance of foolish\\nmen.\\nKegard with Thy favor and visit with Thy blessing this in-\\nstitution of which he was the honored head, and secure to it\\nthe patronage needful to the carrying of its designs into good\\neffect. And finally, when we shall have served Thee in our\\ngeneration, may we, like him, be gathered unto our fathers,\\nhaving the testimony of a good conscience, in the communion\\nof the catholic church, in the confidence of a certain faith, in\\nthe comfort of a reasonable, religions, and holy hope, in favor\\nwith Thee our God, and in perfect charity with the world. All\\nof which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\\nGeneral Early then arose and spoke as follows:\\nFriends^ Comi^ades and Felloio- Citizens, Ladies and Gentle-\\nmen\\nThe sickness of Gen. Josej)!! E. Johnston, the distinguished\\nPresident of the Lee Memorial Association, which prevents his\\nattendance here, has devolved on me, as First Yice-President,\\nthe unexpected duty of presiding on this occasion and I am\\nsure no one can regret tlie cause of this change in the pro-\\ngramme more than I do.\\nThe great commander of the Army of Northern Virginia\\ndied on the 12th of October, 1870, and as soon as his remains\\nwere consigned to the tomb, a meeting of the citizens of Lex-\\nington was held, and steps taken for the formation of an Asso-", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24\\nciation to erect a monument to his memory. More effectually\\nto carry out that purpose, an act of incorporation was obtained\\nfrom the Legislature of Virginia on the lith of January, 1871,\\nby which certain gentlemen, most of whom were residents of\\nLexington, and such other persons as they should associate with\\nthemselves, were incorporated by the name and style of The\\nLee Memorial Association. Subsequently the Association was\\nfurther organized by the appointment of Gen. John C, Breck-\\ninridge, of Kentucky, who had been the last Secretary of War\\nof the Confederate States, as President, and of fifteen Vice-\\nPresidents, as also a Treasurer, the nineteen persons named\\nin the act of incorporation, by the terms of the act itself, con-\\nstituting the Executive Committee. The chairman of that\\nCommittee was Gen. Wm, N. Pendleton, the distinguished\\nChief of x\\\\rtillery of the Army of Northern Virginia, and\\nthe Secretary was Captain Charles A. Davidson, a gallant offi-\\ncer of the First Virginia Battalion.\\nThe act of incorporation does not specify the place at which\\nthe proposed monument should be erected, nor the nature of\\nit; but, after the passage of the act changing the name of\\nWashington College to that of Washington and Lee Uni-\\nversity, it was determined by the Executive Committee, with\\nthe sanction of the authorities of the University, that the\\nmonument should consist of a Mausoleum, attached to the Uni-\\nversity Chapel, which latter had been constructed under the\\nsupervision of General Lee himself, where his remains should\\nbe deposited in a vault, to be surmounted by a recumbent figure\\nin marble, representing our great chieftain at rest it being\\npart of the plan to provide vaults also in the same Mausoleum\\nfor the immediate members of his family, especially the esti-\\nmable and noble lady who had been his partner in life.\\nThe resident members of the Executive Committee pro-\\nceeded to carry out this scheme with great energy and perse-\\nverance, in which the Chairman and Secretary were especially\\nconspicuous. A distinguished Virginia artist was selected to\\nexecute in marble the recumbent figure, and years ago he com-\\npleted his work in a manner that links his name forever with\\nthat of Lee.", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "25\\nUpon the death of General Breckinridge, General Joseph\\nE. Johnston, the senior surviving officer of the Confederate\\nArmy, and the predecessor of General Lee in command of\\nthat army, wliich, under the lead of the latter, became so re-\\nnowned as the Army of Northei-n Virginia, was made the\\nPresident.\\nOn the 29th of November, 1878, the corner-stone of the\\nMausoleum was laid, under the superintendence of a distin-\\nguished architect of Baltimore, who was charged with its con-\\nstruction. The requisite funds have beeii raised by great\\nexertion, a large part having been contributed in small sums.\\nThe noble work has now been completed, and we are as-\\nsembled here to perform the crowning act, in unveiling the\\nrecumbent figure of one of the grandest and noblest heroes,\\nsoldiers, and patriots, who have figured in all the history of the\\nworld. In doing this, we are not conferring honor on the mem-\\nory of General Robert E. Lee we are merelv demonstrating\\nto the world that we were worthy to have been the followers\\nand compatriots of such a man. Unfortunately, neither the\\ngallant soldier and Christian gentleman, Gen. Pendleton, Chair-\\nman of the Executive Committee, nor the gallant Davidson, the\\nefficient Secretary of that Committee, have survived to witness\\nthe completion of the work, to the success of which they con-\\ntributed so largely.\\nIt is deeply to be regretted that President Davis, who was\\nexpected to deliver an address on this occasion, has been pre-\\nvented by circumstances from being present, but his lovely and\\naccomplished young daughter, whose pride it is to have been\\nborn on the soil of Virginia, has sent from his Southern home\\ntwo Confederate flags made of immortelles, and two bay\\nwreaths, one of each to be placed on the tombs of Generals Lee\\nand Jackson, respectively, as tokens of her admiration for their\\ngreat characters, and of the sympathy of her family Avitli us.\\nThere is also another whose absence is to be deeply regretted,\\nthough he is nearly within reach of my voice I mean that\\nwar Governor of Virginia, who conferred upon Generals Lee\\nand Jackson the commissions which brought them into the ser-", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a76\\nvice of their native State, in defence of I ight, justice, liberty,\\nand independence and who sustained them throughout,\\nwhether they M ere in tlie State or Confederate service, with\\nsuch unswerving fidelity and unselfish devotion you must\\nknow that I can mean no other than John Letcher, with whom\\nwe all so heartily sympathize in the bodily affliction which\\nalone prevents him from being with us.\\nAnd now permit me to introduce to you, as the orator of the\\noccasion, Major John W. Daniel, who needs no words of\\ncommendation from me, but will speak for himself.\\nMajor Daniel was received witli rounds of applause. When\\nthis had subsided he delivered the following oration\\nADDRESS OF JOHN W. DANIEL, LL. D.\\nMr. President^ My Comrades and Countrymen\\nThere was no happier or lovelier home than that of Colonel\\nKobert Edward Lee, in the spring of ISGl, when for the first\\ntime its threshold was darkened with the omens of civil war.\\nCrowning the green slo23es of the Virginia Hills that over-\\nlook the Potomac, and embowered in stately trees, stood the\\nvenerable mansion of Arlington, facing a prospect of varied\\nand imposing beauty. Its broad porch, and wide-spread wings,\\nheld out open arms, as it were, to welcome the coming guest.\\nIts simple Doric columns graced domestic comfort w^ith a\\nclassic air. Its halls and chambers were adorned with the por-\\ntraits of patriots and heroes, and with illustrations and relics\\nof the great revolution, and of the Father of his country\\nAnd within and without, history and tradition seemed to\\nbreathe their legends upon a canvass as soft as a dream of\\npeace.\\nThe noble river, which in its history, as well as in its name,\\ncarries us back to the days when the red man trod its banks,\\nsweeps in full and even flow along the forefront of the land-\\nscape; while bej-ond its waters stretch the splendid avenues\\nand rise the gleaming spires of Washington and over all, the", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "^7\\ngreat white dome of the National Capital looms up against the\\neastern ekj, like a glory in the air.\\nSouthward and westward, toward the blue rim of tlie Alle-\\nghanies, roll away the pine and oak clad hills, and the fields of\\nthe Old Dominion, dotted here and there with the homes of\\na people of simple tastes and upright minds, renowned for\\ntheir devotion to their native land, and for their fierce love of\\nliberty; a people who had drunk into their souls with their\\nmother s milk, that Man is of right, and onglit to be, free.\\nOn the one hand there was impressed upon the most casual\\neye that contemplated the pleasing prospect, the munificence\\nand grandeur of American progress, the arts of industry and\\ncommerce, and the symbols of power. On the other hand,\\nNature seemed to m oo the heart back to her sacred haunts,\\nwith vistas of sparkling waters, and verdant pastures, and many\\na wildwood scene and to penetrate its deepest recesses with\\nthe halcyon charm that ever lingers about the thought of\\nIlome.\\nTHE HOST OF ARLINGTON.\\nThe head of the house established here was a man whom\\nNature had richly endowed with graces of person, and high\\nqualities of head and heart. Fame had already bound his\\nbrow with her laurel, and Fortune had poured into his lap her\\ngolden horn. Himself a soldier, and Colonel* in the army of\\nthe United States, the son of the renowned Light Horse\\nliarry Lee, who was the devoted friend and compati-iot of\\nWashington in tlie revolutionary struggle, and whose memora-\\nble eulogy u]ion his august Chief has become his epitapli\\ndescended indeed from a long line of illustrious progenitors,\\nwhose names are written on the brightest scrolls of English\\nand American history, from the conquest of the Norman at\\nHastings, to the triumph of the Continentals at Yorktown,\\nhe had already established his own martial fame at Yera Cruz,\\nCerro Gordo, Contreras, Cherubusco, Molino del Rey, Chepul-\\ntepec and Mexico, and had proved how little he depended upon\\nany merit but his own. Such was his early distinction, that\\nAppointed Colonel March 16th, 1861.", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "8\\nwhen but a Caj^tain, the Cuban Junta had offered to make liini\\nthe leader of their revolutionary movement for the independ-\\nence of Cuba a position which as an American officer, he\\nfelt it his duty to decline. And so deep was the impression\\nmade of his genius and his valor, that General Scott, Com-\\nmander-in-Chief of the army in which he served, had declared\\nthat he was the best soldier he ever saw in the field, the\\ngreatest military genius in America, that if opportunity\\noffered, he would show himself the foremost Captain of his\\ntimes, and that if a great battle were to be fought for the\\nliberty or slavery of the countr}-, his judgment was that the\\ncommander should be Robert Lee.\\nWedded to her who had been the playmate of his boyhood,\\nand who was worthy in every relation to be the companion of\\nhis bosom, sons and daughters had risen up to call them\\nblessed, and there, decorated with his country s honors and sur-\\nrounded by love, obedience, and troops of friends, the host\\nof Arlington seemed to have filled the measure of generous\\ndesire with whatever of fame or happiness fortune can add to\\nvirtue. And had the pilgrim started in quest of some happier\\nspot than the Vale of Rasselas, well might he have paused by\\nthis threshold and doffed his sandal shoon.\\nTHE ANTECEDENTS OF fOLONEL LEE.\\nSo situated was Colonel Lee in the spring of 1861, upon the\\nverge of the momentous revolution, of which he became so\\nmighty a pillar and so glorious a chieftain. But we cannot\\nestimate the struggle it cost him to take up arms against the\\nUnion\u00e2\u0080\u0094 nor the sacrifice he made, nor the pure devotion with\\nwhich he consecrated his sword to his native State without\\nlooking beyond his physical surroundings, and following fur-\\nther the suggestions of his history and character, for the springs\\nof action which prompted his course. Colonel Lee was em-\\nphatically a Union man and Virginia, to the crisis of dissolu-\\ntion, was a Union State. He loved the Union with a soldier s\\nardent loyalty to the Government he served, and with a patriot s\\nfaith and hope in the institutions of his country. His ances-", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "29\\ntors had been among the most distinguished and revered of its\\nfounders; his own life from youth upward had been spent and\\nhis blood shed in its service, and two of his sons, following his\\nfootsteps, held commissions in the army.\\nHe was born in the same county, and descended from the\\nsame strains of English blood from which Washington sprang,\\nand was united in marriage with Mary Custis, the daughter of\\nhis adopted son. He had been reared in the school of simple\\nmanners and lofty thoughts which belonged to the elder gene-\\nration and with Washington as his exemplar of manhood and\\nhis ideal of wisdom, he reverenced his character and fame and\\nwork with a feeling as near akin to worship as any that man\\ncan have for aught that is human.\\nUnlike the statesmen of the hostile sections, who were con-\\nstantly thrown into the provoking conflicts of political debate,\\nhe had been withdrawn by his military occupations from scenes\\ncalculated to irritate or chill his kindly feelings toward the\\npeople of the North and on the contrary in camp, and field,\\nand social circle lie had formed many ties of friendship with\\nits most esteemed soldiers and citizens. With the reticence\\nbecoming his military office, he had taken no part in the con-\\ntroversies which preceded the fatal rupture between the States\\nother than the good man s part, to speak the soft answer\\nthat turns away wrath, and to plead for that forbearance and\\npatience which alone might bring about a peaceful solution of\\nthe questions at issue.\\nYears of his professional life he had spent in Northern com-\\nmunities, and, always a close observer of men and things, he\\nwell understood the vast resources of that section, and the\\nhardy, industrious, and resolute character of its people and he\\njustly weighed their strength as a military power. When men\\nspoke of how easily the South would repel invasion he said\\nYou forget that we are all Americans. And when they\\nprophesied a battle and a peace, he predicted that it would take\\nat least four years to fight out the impending confiict. None\\nwas more conscious than he that each side undervalued and\\nmisunderstood each other. He was, moreover, deeply imbued", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30\\nwith the philosophy of history, and the course of its evolutions,\\nand well knew that in an upheaval of government deplorable\\nresults would follow, which were not thought of in the begin-\\nning, or, if thought of, would be disavowed, belittled and\\ndeprecated. And eminently conservative in his cast of mind\\nand character, every bias of his judgment, as every tendency of\\nhis history, filled him with yearning and aspiration for tlie peace\\nof his country and the perpetuity of the Union. Is it a won-\\nder, then, as the storm of revolution lowered. Colonel Lee,\\nthen with his regiment, the Second Cavalrj^ in Texas, wrote\\nthus to his son in January, 18G1\\nThe South, in my opinion, has been aggrieved by the acts\\nof the North as you say. I feel the aggression, and am will-\\ning to take any proper steps for redress. It is the principle I\\ncontend for, not individual or private benefit. As an American\\ncitizen, I take great pride in my country, her prosperity and\\ninstitutions, and would defend any State if her rights were\\ninvaded. But I can anticipate no greater calamity for the\\ncountry than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an\\naccumulation of all evils we complain of, and I am willing to\\nsacrifice everything but honor for its preservation. I hope,\\ntherefore, that all constitutional means will be exhausted before\\nthere is a resort to force. Secession is nothing but revolution.\\nStill, a Union that can only be maintained by swords and\\nbayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place\\nof love and kindness, has no charm for me. I shall mourn for\\nmy country and for the welfare and progress of mankind. If\\nthe Union is dissolved, and the government is disrupted, I shall\\nreturn to my native State and share the miseries of my people,\\nand, save in defence, will draw my sword on none.\\nWAR.\\nA few weeks later Colonel Lee was ordered, and came to\\nWashington, reaching there three days before the inauguration\\nof President Lincoln. At that time South Carolina, Missis-\\nsippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, had already\\nseceded from the Union, and the Provisional Government of\\nthe Confederate States was in operation at MontgouKTy.", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "31\\nThe Yirginia Convention was in session, but slow and delib-\\nerate in its course. The State which had done so much to\\nfound the Union was loth to assent to its dissolution, and still\\nguided by the wise counsels of such men as llobert E. Scott,\\nRobert Y. Conrad, Jubal A. Early, John B. Baldwin, Samuel\\nMcDowell Moore, and A. II. II. Stuart, she persisted in efforts\\nto avert the calamity of wan Events followed swiftly. The\\nPeace Conference had failed. Overtures for the peaceful\\nevacuation of Fort Sumpter had likewise failed. On the 13th\\nof April, under bombardment, the Federal Commander, Major\\nAnderson, with its garrison, surrendered. On April 15th\\nPresident Lincoln issued his proclamation for 75,000 men to\\nmake war against the seceded States, which he styled Com-\\nbinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course\\nof judicial proceedings. This proclamation determined Vir-\\nginia s course. War had come. Her mediation had been in\\nvain. She was too noble to be neutral.\\nOf the arts of duplicity she knew nothing save to despise.\\nShe must now level her guns against the breasts of her South-\\nern brethren, or make her own breast their shield. On April\\n17th Virginia answered Mr. Lincoln s proclamation with the\\nOrdinance of Secession, and like Pallas- Athene, the front\\nfighter stepped with intrepid brow to where, in conflict, his-\\ntory has ever found her to the front of war. _^\\nUNDKK WHICH FLAG\\nWhere now is Kobert Lee? On the border line, between\\ntwo hostile empires, girding their loins for as stern a fight as\\never tested warriors steel, he beholds each beckoning to him\\nto lead its people to battle. On the one hand, Virginia, now\\nin the fore-front of a scarcely organized revolution, summons\\nhim to share her lot in the perilous adventure. The young\\nConfederacy is without an army. There is no navy. There\\nis no currency. There are few teeming work-shops and\\narsenals. There is little but a meagre and widely scattered\\npopulation, for the most part men of the field, the prairie, the\\nforest and the mountain, ready to stand the hazard of an auda-", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32\\ncioiis endeavor, to meet aggression with whatever weapons\\nfreemen can lay their hands on, and to carry high the banners\\nof the free, whatever may betide.\\nDid he fail Ah, did he fail His beloved State would be\\ntrampled in the mire of the ways; the Confederacy would be\\nblotted from the family of nations, home and country would\\nsurvive only in memory and in name his people would be\\ncaptives, their very slaves their masters and he, if of him-\\nself he thought at all, he, mayhap, might have seen in the\\ndim perspective, the shadow of the dungeon or the scaffold.\\nOn the other hand stands the foremost and most powerful\\nRepublic of the earth, rich in all that handiwork can fashion\\nor that gold can buy. It is thickly populated. Its regular\\narmy, and its myriad volunteers, rush to do its bidding. Its\\nnavy rides the Western seas in undisputed sway. Its treasury\\nteems with the sinews of war, and its arsenals with weapons.\\nAnd the world is open to lend its cheer and aid and comfort.\\nIts capital lies in sight of his chamber window, and its guns\\nbear on the portals of his home. A messenger comes from its\\nPresident and from General Scott, Commander-in-Chief of its\\narmy, to tender him supreme command of its forces. Did he\\naccept it, and did he succeed, the conqueror s crown awaits\\nhim, and win or lose, he will remain the foremost man of a\\ngreat established nation, with all honor and glory that riches\\nand office and power and public applause can supply.\\nSince the Son of Man stood upon the Mount, and saw all\\nthe kingdoms of the earth and the gloiy thereof stretched be-\\nfore him, and turned away from them to the agony and bloody\\nsweat of Gethsemane, and to the Cross of Calvary beyond, no\\nfollower of the meek and lowly Saviour can have undergone\\nmore trying ordeal, or met it with higher spirit of heroic sacri-\\nfice.\\nThere was naught on earth that could swerv^e Robert E. Lee\\nfrom the path where, to his clear comprehension, honor and\\nduty lay. To the statesman, Mr. Francis Preston Blair, who\\nbrought him the tender of supreme command, he answ ered\\nMr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "33\\nthe four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them A\\nall to the Union. But how can I draw my sword against Vir- J\\nginia?\\nDraw his sword against Virginia? Perish the thought!\\nOver all the voices that called him he heard the still small voice\\nthat ever whispers to the soul of the spot that gave it birth,\\nand of her who gave it suck and over every ambitions dream,\\nthere rose the face of tlie angel that guards the door of home.\\nOn the 20th of April, as soon as the news of Virginia s seces\\\\\\nsion reached him, he resigned his commission in the army of\\nthe United States, and thus wrote to his sister who remained\\nwith her husband on the Union side:\\nWith all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of\\nloyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able\\nto make up ray mind to raise my hands against my relatives,\\nmy children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my com-\\nmission in the army, and save in the defence of my native\\nState (with the sincere hope tliat my poor services may never\\nbe needed) I hope I may never be called upon to draw my\\nsword.\\nLEE DEVOTES HIS SAVOKD TO HIS NATIVE STATE.\\nBidding an affectionate adieu to his old friend and com\\nmander, Genera! Scott, who mourned his loss, but nobly ex\\npressed his confidence in his motives, he repaired to Richmond\\nGovernor John Letcher immediately appointed him to the\\ncommand-in-chief of the Virginia forces, and the Convention\\nunanimousl} confirmed the nomination. Memorable and im-\\npressive was the scene when he came into the presence of that\\nbody on April 23d. Its venerable President, John Janney,\\nwith brief, sententious eloquence, addressed him, and con-\\ncluded saying\\nSir, we have by this unanimous vote expressed our convic-\\ntions that you are at this day, among the living citizens of Vir-\\nginia, first in war. We pray to God most fervently that you\\nmay so conduct the operations committed to your charge, that I\\nit may be said of you that you are first in peace, and when I", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34\\nthat time comes, you will have earned the still prouder dis-\\ntinction of being first in the hearts of your countrymen.\\nYesterday your mother, Virginia, placed her sword in your\\nliand upon the implied condition that we know you will keep\\nin letter and in spirit: that you will draw it only in defence,\\nand that you will fall with it in your hand rather than the ob-\\nject for which it was placed there should fail.\\nGeneral Lee thus answered\\nMr. President and Gentlemen of the Co7ivention\\nProfoundly impressed with the solemnity of the occasion,\\nfor which I must say I was not prepared, I accept the position\\nassigned me by your partiality. I would have preferred had\\nyour choice fallen upon an abler man. Trusting in Almighty\\nGod, an approving conscience, and the aid of my fellow-citizens,\\nI devote myself to the service of my native State, in whose\\nbehalf alone will I ever again draw my sword.\\nThus came Robert E. Lee to the State of his birth and to the\\npeople of his blood in their hour of need Thus, with as chaste\\na heart as ever plighted its faith until death, for better or for\\nworse, he came to do, to suffer, and to die for us, who to-day\\narc o athered in awful reverence, and in sorrow unspeakable, to\\nweep our blessings upon his tomb.\\nlee s vindication A PEOPLE IS ITS OWN JUDGE.\\nI pause not here to defend the course of General Lee, as that\\ndefence may be drawn from the Constitution of a Republic\\nwhich was born in the sublime protest of its people against\\nbayonet rule, and founded on the bed-rock principle of free\\no-overnment, that all free governments must derive their just\\npowers from the consent of the governed. I pause not to trace\\nthe history or define the grounds of that theory of constitu-\\ntional construction which maintained the right of secession from\\nthe Union as an element of sovereign statehood a theory which\\nhas found ablest and noblest advocacy in every section of the\\ncountry. The tribunal is not yet formed that would hearken\\nto such defence, nor is this the time or place to utter it. And", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "35\\nto ray mind there is for Lee and his compatriots a loftier and\\ntruer vindication than anj tliat may be deduced from codes,\\nconstitutions, and conventional articles of government. A great\\nrevolution need never apologize for nor explain itself. There\\nit is!\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the august and thrilling rise of a whole population!\\nAnd the fact that it is there is the best evidence of its right to\\nbe there. None but great inspirations underlie great actions.\\nJSTone but great causes can ever produce great events, A\\ntransient gust of passion may turn a crowd into a mob a tem-\\nporary impulse may swell a mob into a local insurrection but\\nwhen a whole people stand to their guns before their hearth-\\nstones, and as one man resist what they deem aggression \\\\vhen\\nfor long years they endure poverty and starvation, and dare\\ndanger and death to maintain principles which they deem sa-\\ncred when they shake a continent with their heroic endeavors\\nand fill the world with the glory of their achievements, history\\ncan make for them no higher vindication than to point to their\\ndeeds and say behold\\nA people is its own judge. Under God there can be no higher\\njudge for them to seek or court or fear. In the supreme mo-\\nments of national life, as in the lives of individuals, the actor\\nmust resolve and act within himself alone. The Southern\\nStates acted for themselves the Northern States for themselves\\nVirginia for herself. And when the lines of battle formed,\\nKobert Lee took his place in the line beside his people, his\\nkindred, his children, his home. Let his defence rest on this\\nfact alone. Nature speaks it. Nothing can strengthen it.\\nNothing can weaken it. The historian may compile the\\ncasuist may dissect the statesman may expatiate the advocate\\nmay plead the jurist may expound but, after all, there can\\nbe no stronger or tenderei tie than that which binds the fliith-\\nful heart to kindred and to home. And on that tie stretching\\nfrom the cradle to the grave, spanning the heavens, and riveted\\nthrough eternity to the throne of God on high, and underneath\\nin the souls of good men and true\u00e2\u0080\u0094 on that tie rests, stainless\\nand immortal, the fame of Robert Lee.", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36\\nLEE S EARLY SERVICE IN THE CONFEDERATE WAR.\\nAnd now tliat war was flagrant, history delights to testify how\\ngrandly General Lee bore his part. Transferred from the State\\nservice to that of the Confederacy, with tlie rank of General,\\nw-e behold him at first in the field in the rugged mountains of\\nNorthwest Virginia, restoring the morale lost by the early re-\\nverses to our arras in that Department holding invading\\ncolumns in check with great disparity of force to meet them\\nbearing the censures of the impatient without a murmur, and\\ncareless of fame with duty done. Later, in the fall of 1861,\\nwe find him exercising his skill as an engineer in planning de-\\nfences along the threatened coast of South Carolina and in\\nMarch, 1862, he is again in Virginia, charged by President\\nDavis with the conduct of military operations in the armies\\nof the Confederacy in brief, and in some sort, under the\\nPresident, Commander-in-Chief.\\nBut now a year of war had rolled by no brilliant accom-\\nplishment had yet satisfied the pu})lic expectation with which\\nhe had been welcomed as a Southern leader and as the fame\\nof revolutionary Captains can only be fed with victories, it is\\nunquestionable that, at this stage of his career, the reputation\\nof Lee, as a General, had sensibly declined.\\nTHE FALL OF GENERAL .JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON AND THE OFPOR-\\nTUNFfY OF LEE.\\nMeanwhile the Army of Northern Virginia had made a\\nname in history under its famous commander, Joseph E. John-\\nston and I cannot speak that name without bowing the homage\\nof ray heart to the illustrious soldier and noble gentleman who\\nbears it. Under his sagacious and brilliant leadership, his\\nforces had been suddenly witdravvn from Patterson s front\\nnear Winchestei-, and united with those of General Beauregard\\nat Manassas and there, led by these two Generals, the joint\\nconnnand had, on July 21st, 1861, routed the Army of the\\nPotomac in the first pitched battle of the war; had given earn-\\nest of what the volunteers of the South could do in action, and\\nliad crowned the new-born Confederacy with the glory of", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "37\\nsplendid niilitary acliieveineiit. iStill later in the progress of\\nevents, Johnston had exhibited again his strategic skill in hold-\\ning McClellan at hay on the lines of Yorktoivn, with a force\\nso small that it seemed hardihood to oppose him with it\u00e2\u0080\u0094had\\nelnded his toils by a retreat np the Peninsula, so cleaidy con-\\nducted, that little was lost Ijeyond the space vacated*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 had\\nturned and fiercely smitten his advancing columns near the old\\nColonial Capital of Williamsburg on May 5th, 18r;2, and had\\nplanted his army firmly around Richmond. Pending the siege\\nof Yorktown, a thing had liaj)pened that probably had no par-\\nallel in history. The great body of General Johnston s army\\nhad reorganized itself under the laws of the Confederacy,\\nwhile lying under the fire of the enemy s guns, the privates of\\neach company electing by ballot the officers that were to com-\\nmand them. A singular exercise of suffrage was this, but\\nthere was a free ballot and a fair count, and an exhibition\\nworth} of\\nThat fierce Democracy that thundered over Greece\\nTo Macedon and Artaxerxes throne.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094an exhibition which would have delighted the heart of Thomaa\\nJefFerson, and which certainly put to blush the autocratic theory\\nthat armies should be mere compact masses of brute force.\\nStill later, on May 31st, Johnston had sallied forth and stormed\\n*NoTE.-The Philadelphia mnes of September 4tl^sl?rc^t aTiT^^d^7H ifO\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nrora the pen of Allan K Ma-rnder, Ksq., brother of the late dlstin uishofn \u00e2\u0080\u00a2mi\\nederate ofhcer Major (Jcn.Tal John Kankhead Magruder, In win -h 1 o \u00e2\u0080\u00a2ritoV\\ntakes exception to this stat(.in,.nt oimy address. He savs that to tie i oral Ala.\\ngruder belongs the credit of the -.strategic skill which held McClellan at l^av\\nontheline.sot \\\\orktown; that General .Johnston never comman ed on tho^A\\nfence. ^hat the Army of Northern Virginia never fired a shot in their de-\\nThe high character and standing of the writer, and mv great respect for thf.\\nmemory ot General Magrader, to whom I Monld do allhouor inc v?co me to\\nnotice this article here. 1 do not deny that General Magrii l,.r d d before the a r\\nrival ol General .Johnston, defend the lines of Yorktowif xvith\\\\vo dSVdlres:\\nand boldness, and IS entitled to high praise for the abilitv and c.h rage di^i^^laved\\nn so doing. \\\\et there can be no doubt that General Johnston did commlnd\\nthe army defending the Yorktown lines; and that his army fired manv a shot\\nin their celence. This is attested by all the official records. That there can be\\nno mistake about It, I am myself a witness, for I marched from Cen revfue to\\nRichmond, and there took steamer for the lines of Yorktown wUi General\\nJohnston st9rces; lay with them there in the trenches for weeks, and s lw and\\nheard the firing ol many a shot from cannon, rifie, and musket in thei^i detinue\\nAnd under conimand of General Johnston, whom I personal! v saw on the fle?d\\nI marched with his^trooi^s on the retreat fro m Yorktown, and par icipated in th4\\nbattle ot AV illiamsburg May 5th, 1SU2, with the advancing fords ol Mcaellan\\nThe fact is Mr. Magruder has fallen into what is to me, a strange an lunaccount.\\n.able error, as he m-iU discover on reading any history of thee v Aits lifprrfl?!?^!\\nhave before me McCabe s Life of Lee, and Gen. Joseph E.JoimstoiVs work entl\\ntied Johnston-s Narrative, and they confirm the accuracy of the statements\\nIf^ w* remarks are based. The credit given GeneVl Jo Lton s due\\nhim; but It in no wise detracts from that likewise due General xMaeruder for\\nhis anterior exploits of a like nature. tuLiai iviagjuoer, tor", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38\\naud taken the outer entrenchments and camps of McClellan s\\narmy at Seven Pines, capturing ten pieces of artillery, six thou-\\nsand muskets, and other spoils of war, and destrojung the pres-\\ntige of the second On to Richmond movement.\\nBut ere the day was done victory had been checked, and\\nglory had exacted costly tribute, for Johnston himself had\\nfallen, terribly wounded. The hero, covered with ten wounds\\nreceived in Florida and Mexico, had been prostrated by an-\\nother and when June 1st dawned on the confronting armies,\\nthe Army of Northern Virginia was without the leader who\\nheld its thorough confidence, but now lay stricken well-nigh\\nunto death. The casualty which thus deprived the army of\\nits honored commander, and closed to him the opportunity,\\nwhich, in large measure, his own great skill had created,\\nopened the opportunity of Lee. Fortunate the State, and great\\nthe people from whom spring two such sons fortunate the\\narmy that always had a leader worthy of it happy he who can\\ntransmit his place to one so well qualified to fill it and happy\\nlikewise he who had such predessor to prepare the way for vic-\\ntory.\\nGENERAL LEE IN COMMAND OF THE AEMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA\\nRICHMOND, MANASSAS, HARPEr s FERRY, SHARPSBURG, FRED-\\nERICKSBURG.\\nOn the 3d of June, 1862, General Lee was assigned to com-\\nmand in person the Army of Northern Virginia and from\\nthat day to April 9th, 1865, nearly three years, he was at its\\nhead. And on the page of history now laid open are crowded\\nschemes of war and feats of arms as brilliant as ever thrilled\\nthe soul of heroism and genius with admiration, a page of\\nhistory that feasted glory till pity cried, no more. Swift\\nM-as Lee to plan, and swift to execute. Making a feint of\\nreinforcing Jackson in the Valley, startling the Federal author-\\nities with apprehensions of attack on the Potomac lines, and\\npractically eliminating McDowell, who, with his corps, remained\\nnear Fredericksburg, he suddenly descends with Jackson on\\nthe right and rear of McClellan, and ere thirty days have", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "39\\npassed since he assumed cotnniaiid, Richmond has been saved,\\nand the fiekls around her made immortal and the broken\\nranks of McClellan are crouching for protection under the\\nheavy guns of the iron-clads at Harrison s Landing. Sixty\\ndays more, and the siege of Richmond has been raised, the\\nConfederate cobmms are marching JSTorthM^ard Jackson in the\\nadvance, has on August 9th caught up again with his old friend\\nBanks, at Slaughter s Mountain, and punished him terribly,\\nand as the day closes August 30th, Manassas has the second\\ntime been tlie scene of a general engagement with like results\\nas the first. John Pope, who thitherto, according to his\\npompons boast, had seen only the backs of his enemies, has\\nliad his curiosity entirely satisfied with a brief glimpse of their\\nfaces; and the proud army of the Potomac is flying in hot\\nhaste to find shelter in the entrenchments of Washington. In\\nearly Septenjber the Confederates are in Maryland. In extreme\\nexigency, McClellan is recalled to command the Army of the\\nPotomac, but while Lee holds him in check at Boonsboro and\\nSouth Mountain, a series of complicated raanceuvres have\\ninvested General Miles, the officer in command at Harper s\\nFerry, and on September 15th Stonewall Jackson has there\\nreceived surrender of his entire army of eleven thousand men,\\nseventy-three cannon, thirteen thousand small arms, two hun-\\ndred wagons, and man} stores. But there is no time to rest,\\nfor McClellan presses Lee at Sharpsburg, and there, September\\n17th, battle is delivered. Upon its eve Jackson has arrived\\nfresh froui Harper s Ferry. McClellan s repeated assaults on\\nLee were everywhere repulsed. lie remained on the field Sep-\\ntember ISth, and then recrossed the Potomac into Virginia.\\nThe winter of 18G2 comes, and Burnside, succeeding Mc-\\nClellan, assails Lee at Fredericksburg on December 13th, and\\nis repulsed with terrible slaughter.\\n18G3 CnANCELLORSNFLLE.\\nWith the dawn of spring in 1863, a replenished army with a\\nfresh commander, Fighting Joe Hooker, renews the onset\\nby way of Chancellorsville, and finds Lee with two divisions of", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40\\nLongstreet s corps absent in Southeast Virginia. But slender\\nas are his numbers, Lee is ever aggressive and while Hooker\\nwith the finest army on the planet, as he styled it, is con-\\nfronting Lee near Chancellorsville, and Early is holding Sedg-\\nwick at bay at Fredericksburg, Jackson, who, under Lee s\\ndirections, has stealthily marched around him, comes thunder-\\ning in his rear, and alas for Fighting Joe, he can onl}^ illus-\\ntrate his pugnacious subriquet by the consoling reflection that\\nHe who fights and runs away,\\nMay live to fight another day,\\nfor Chancellorsville shines high on the list of Confederate vic-\\ntories, and indeed was one of the grandest victories that ever\\nblazoned the annals of war.\\nTHE FALL OF STONEWALL JACKSOX.\\nBut alas too, for the victor, on May 2d, in the culminating\\nact of the drama, Jackson himself had fallen, and never more\\nis the foot cavalry to see again along the smoking lines that\\ncalm, stern face; never to hear again that crisp, fierce order,\\nGive them the bayonet which so often heralded the tri-\\numphant charge; never is the Southern land to be thrilled\\nagain with his familiar bulletin God blessed our arms with\\nvictory. At the age of 39 at a time of life when the pow-\\ners of manhood are ordinarily scarce full-orbed, he has touched\\nthe zenith, and filled the world with his fame; and he who went\\nforth two years before from this quiet town, scarce known\\nbeyond it, comes back upon the soldier s bier, renowned,\\nrevered, and njourned in every clime where the heart quickens\\nin sympathy for surpassing valor, united with transcendent\\ngenius aisd honor without a stain. There he sleeps, in yon green\\ngrave, and as in life he fought, so in death he rests with Lee.\\nWINCHESTER AND GETTYSBUKG.\\nBut not long can the soldier pause to weep. We fire our\\nsalute over the ashes of our heroic dead and again the bugles\\nsound i)oots and saddles, and the long roll is beating. Less\\nthan a month has passed, and again the Army of Northern", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "41\\nVirginia is in motion, and while Hooker is groping around to\\nascertain the M hereabonts of his adversary, the next scene\\nunfolds: General Early has planned and executed a flank\\nmarch around AVinchester, worthy of Stonewall Jackson, the\\nmen of his division are mounting the parapets on June 14th,\\nand capturing Milro3 s guns. General Edward Johnston s\\ndivision is pursuing Milroy s fugitives down the Yalley pike.\\nGeneral Rodes has captured Martinsburg, with 100 prisoners\\nand five cannon, Ewell s corps is master of the Yalley, and\\nby June 24th, the Army of Northern Yirginia is in Pennsyl-\\nvania, while for the third time the Army of the Potomac is\\nglad if it can interpose to prevent the fall of Washington\\nand a sixth commander has come to its head\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -General George\\nC. Meade.\\nThen follows the boldest and grandest assault of modern\\nwar the charge upon the Federal centre entrenched on the\\nheights of Gettysburg a charge that well-nigh ended the war\\nwith a clap of thunder, and was so characterized by brave\\ndesign and dauntless execution that friend and foe alike burst\\ninto irrepressible praise of the great commander who directed\\nand of the valorous men who made it. It failed. But Lee,\\nunshaken, rallies the broken lines, and the next morning stands\\nin steady array, flaunting his banners defiantly, and challenging\\nrenewal of the strife. It is all my fault, he says. Not so\\nthought his men. We saw him standing by the roadside with\\nhis bridle rein over his arm, on the second day afterwards, as\\nthe army was withdrawing. Pickett s drvision filed past him\\nevery General of Brigade had fallen, and every field-ofiScer of\\nits regiments a few tattered battle-flags and a few hundreds\\nof men were all that was left of the magnificent body, 5,000\\nstrong, who had made the famous charge. He stood with un-\\ncovered head, as if he reviewed a conquering host, and with\\nthe conqueror s look upon him. With proud step the men\\nmarched by, and as they raised their hats and cheered him\\nthere was the tenderness of devoted love, mingled with the fire\\nof battle, in their eyes.\\nReturning to Yirginia in martial trim and undismayed, and", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42\\nfoilowed by Meade with that slow and gingerly step which is\\nself-explaining, we next behold onr General displaying that\\nrare self-poise and confidence which bespeaks ever a great\\nquality firmness of mind in war. In September, while he\\nconfronts Meade along the Rapidan, he detatches the entire\\ncorps of Longstreet, and ere Meade is aware of this weakening\\nof his opponent s forces, Longstreet is nine hundred miles\\naway, striking a terrible blow at Chickamaiiga.\\nThe year 1863 passes by without other signiicant event in\\nthe story of the Array of Northern Virginia. Meade indeed,\\nonce in November, deployed his lines along Mine Run\\nin seeming overtures of battle, but quickly concluding that\\ndiscretion was the better part of valor, he marched back\\nacross the Rappahannock, content with his observations.\\n1864 WILDERNESS, SPOTSYLVANIA, COLD ITARBOE, PETERSBURG,\\nLYNCHBURG.\\nBut as the May blossoms in 1 864, we hear once more the\\nwonted strain of spring, tramp, tramp, tramp, the boj s are\\nmarching, and Grant (who had succeeded Meade), crossing\\nthe Rappahannock with 141,000 men, plunges boldly into the\\nWilderness on May 4th, leading the sixth crusade for the re-\\nduction of Richmond. But scarce had he disclosed his line of\\nmarch, than Lee, with 50,000 of his braves, springs upon him\\nand hurls him back, staggering and gory, through the tangled\\nchapparal of the Wilderness, and from the fields of Spotsyl-\\nvania and though the redoubtable Grant writes to the Govern-\\nment on May 12th, I propose to fight it out on this line if it\\ntakes all summer; when we look over the field of Cold Har-\\nbor on June 3d, w^e see there, stretched in swaths and piled\\nin reeking mounds 13,000 of his men, the killed and\\nwounded of his last assault in the over-land campaign. And\\nwhen Grant ordered his lines to attack again the flinty front of\\nLee, they stood immobile, in silent protest against the vain\\nattempt, and in silent eulogy of their sturdy foe. One summer\\nmonth had been summer time enough for Grant along that\\nimpervious line; and there at Cold Harbor practically closed", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "43\\nthe sixth expedition aimed directly at the Confederate Capital\\nMcDowell, McClellan, Pope, Buriiside, Hooker and now\\nGrant, all being disastrously repulsed by the Army of North-\\nern Virginia, and all but the first receiving their repulse by the\\narmy led by Lee. But Grant in some sort, veiled his reverses\\nby immediately abandoning attack on the north side of the\\nJames, which he crossed in the middle of June, attempting\\nto capture Petersburg on the south side by a coup de main.\\nBut in this, after four days successive assaults which ended in\\nvain carnage, he failed again; and almost simultaneously Hun-\\nter s invasion through the Valley was intercepted and success-\\nfully repelled at Lynchburg by the swift and bold movements\\nof Lee s greatest Lieutenant, the ever-to-be-counted-on Jubal\\nA. Early, who had been dispatched to meet him with a force\\nnot half his equal in numbers. And when midsummer came,\\nGrant was glad to shelter his drooping banners behind en-\\ntrenchments Hunter was flying to the mountains of West\\nVirginia, and detachments were hurrying from the Army of\\nthe Potomac to save Washington, which was trembling at the\\nsound of Early s guns. In that wonderful campaign of Lee\\nfrom the Wilderness tb Petersburg, Grant had lost not less\\nthan 70,000 men in reaching a point which he might have\\ngained by river approaches without the loss of one. Every\\nman in the Army of Northern Virginia, had more than stricken\\ndown a foeman and final demonstration had been given to\\nthe fact that in field fight, Lee could not be matched in gen-\\neralship, and that the Army of Northern Virginia was invinci-\\nble. This fact the hard sense of Grant recognized and though\\nno commander who felt himself and his men to be tlie equals\\nof their adversaries in manceuvre and combat would ever come\\ndown to such conclusion, it is creditable to Gi ant s plain, mat-\\nter-of-fact way of looking at things that he looked at them\\njust as they were. And so he resorted to sap and mine and\\npick and spade to do the work which strategy and valor had so\\noften essayed in vain. For nine months the armies lay before\\nthe muzzles of each other s guns, bumping, as it were, against\\neach other, Grant deliberately counting that he who had the", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44\\nmost heads could butt the longest. Thus Lee stood with less\\nthan 40,000 men covering a line of thirty miles, while Grant,\\nwith more than three times that number, over and over again\\nat Reams s Station, at the Crater, at Hatcher s Run and other\\npoints, battered the armor from which every blow recoiled.\\nSo Lee stood with a half-fed and half-clothed soldiery, composed\\nlargely of stripling youth and failing age, beating back his\\nthree-fold foe, freshly recruited for every fresh assault, and\\ngenerously provided with the richest stores and most approved\\narras and munitions of war.\\nTime forbids that I prolong the story and this imperfect\\nsketch is but a dim outline of that grand historic picture in\\nwhich Robert Lee will ever stand as the foremost iigure, chal-\\nlenging and enchaining the reverence and admiration of man-\\nkind, the faint suggestion of that magnificent career which has\\nmade for him a place on the heights of history as high as war-\\nrior s sword has ever carved.\\nPREMONITIONS OF THE END THE MARCH TO APPOMATTOX.\\nVain was the mighty struggle, led by the peerless Lee.\\nGenius planned, valor executed, patriotism stripped itself of\\nevery treasure, and heroism fought and bled and died, and all\\nin vain! When the drear winter of 1864 came at last, there\\ncame also premonotions of the end. The very seed-corn of\\nthe Confederacy had been ground up, as President Davis said.\\nThe people sat at naked tables and slept in sheetless beds, for\\ntheir apparel had been used to bind up wounds. The weeds grew\\nin fenceless fields, for the plow-horse was pulling tlie cannon.\\nThe church-yard and the mansion fences were stripped of their\\nleaden ornaments, that the musket and the rifle might not lack\\nfor bullets. The church bells, now melted into cannon, pealed\\nforth the dire notes of war. The land was drained of its sub-\\nstance, and the Army of Northern Virginia was nearly ex-\\nhausted for want of food and raiment. All through the bleak\\nwinter days and nights its decimated and shivering ranks still\\nfaced the dense battallions of Grant, in misery and want not\\nless than that which stained the snows of Valley Forge and", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "45\\nthe army seemed to live only on its innate, indomitable will, as\\noftentimes we see some noble mind survive when the physical\\npowers of nature have been exhausted. Like a rock of old\\nocean, it had received, and broken, and hurled back into the\\ndeep in bloody foam those swiftly succeeding waves of four\\nyears of incessant battle but now the rock itself was wearing\\na^a} and still the waves came on.\\nA new enemy was now approaching the sturd}^ devoted band.\\nIn September, 1864, Atlantafell, and through Georgia to the sea,\\nwith fire and sword, swept the victorious columns of Sherman.\\nIn January/ 1865, the head of column had been turned north\\nward and in February, Columbia and Charleston shared tlie\\nfate that had alread} befallen Savannali. Yes, a new enemy was\\napproaching the Army of Northern Virginia, and this time in\\nthe rear. The homes of tlie soldiers of the Army of Nortliern\\nVirginia from the Southern States were now in ashes. Wives,\\nmothers and sisters w^ere wanderers under the winter skies,\\nflying from the invaders who smote and spared not in their re-\\nlentless march. Is it wonder that hearts that never quailed be-\\nfore bayonet or blade beat now with tremulous and irrepressi-\\nble emotion Is it wonder that, in the watches of the nio-ht\\nthe sentinel in the trenches, tortured to excruciation with the\\nthought that those dearest of earth to him were witliout an\\narm to save, felt his soul sink in anguish and his hope perish\\nSo it was, that with hunger and nakedness as its cotnpanions,\\nand foes in front and foes in rear, the Army of Noi thern Vir-\\nginia seemed bound to the rock of fate.\\nOn April 1st the left wing of Grant s massive lines swept\\naround the right and rear of Lee. Gallantly did Pickett and\\nhis men meet and resist them at Five Forks but that com-\\nmanding strategic point was taken, and the fall of Petersburg\\nand of Richmond alike became inevitable. On the next day,\\nApril 2d, they were evacuated. Grant was now on a shorter\\nline projected toward Danville than Lee, and the latter com-\\nmenced at once that memorable retreat towards Lynchburo-,\\nwhich ended at Appomattox.", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46\\nTHE BATTLE OF APPOMATTOX THE LAST CHARGE.\\nOver tliat march of desperate valor disputing fate, as over\\nthe face of a hero in the throes of dissohition, I throw the\\nblood-reeking battle-flag, rent with wounds, as a veil. And I\\nhail the heroic army and its heroic chief, as on the 9th of April\\nmorn, thej stand embattled in calm and stern repose, ready to\\ndie with their harness on, warriors every incli, without fear,\\nwithout stain. Around the little hamlet of Appomattox Court-\\nhouse is gathered the remnant of the Army of Northern Vir-\\nginia, less tlian 8,000 men with arms in tlieir hands, less\\nthan 27,000 all told, counting camp followers and stragglers\\nand around tliem in massive concentric lines the army of Grant,\\nflushed with success and expectation more than 80,000 strong\\nupon the field, and with each hour bringing up re-inforcements.\\nThe environed army, with a valor all Spartan, stand ready to\\ndie, not indeed in response to civic laws denying surrender,\\nbut obedient to the lofty inipnlse of honor. Can they cut\\nthrough i Does the dream of a saved Confederacy yet beckon\\nthem on beyond the wall of steel and fire that girdles them\\nCan they find fighting ground in the Carolinas with Josejoh E.\\nJohnston, who, among the first to meet the foe, proves amongst\\nthe last to leave him Can these dauntless foeman yet cleave\\na path to the inner country, and renew the unequal strife?\\nXot till that hope is tested will they yield I\\nAs the day dawns, a remnant of the cavalry under Fitz. Lee\\nis forming, and Gordon s infantry, scarce two thousand strong,\\nare touching elbows for the last charge. Once more the thrill-\\ning rebel cheer rings through the Virginia woods, and with all\\ntheir wonted fierceness they fall upon Sheridan s men. Ah\\nyes, victory still clings to the tattered battle-flags. Yes, the\\ntroopers of our gallant Fitz. are as dauntless as when they fol-\\nlowed the plume of Stuart, the flower of cavaliers. Yes,\\nthe matchless infantry of tattered uniforms and briglit mus-\\nkets under Gordon, the brave, move witli as swift, intrepid\\ntread as when of old Stonewall led the way. Soldiers of\\nManassas, of Richmond, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancel-\\nlorsville, Gettysburg, of the Wilderness, of Spotsylvania, of", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "47\\nJold Harbor, of Petersburg scarred and sinewy veterans of\\nfifty fields, your glories are still about you, your manhood is\\ntriumphant still. Yes, the blue lines break before them two\\ncannon and many prisoners are taken, and for two miles they\\nsweep the field towards Lynchburg victors still\\nBut no, too late too late! Behind the flying sabres and\\nrifles of Sheridan rise the bayonets and frown the batteries of\\nthe Army of the James, under Ord a solid phalanx stands\\nright athwart the path of Fitz. Lee s and Gordon s men. Too\\nlate the die is cast I The doom is sealed There is no escape.\\nThe eagle is quarried in his eyre the wounded lion is liaunted\\nto his lair\\nAnd so the guns of the last charge died away in the morn-\\ning air and echo, like the sob of a mighty sea, rolled up the\\nvalley of the James, and all was still. The last fight of the\\nArmy of Northern Virginia had been fought. The end had\\ncome. The smoke vanished. The startled birds renewed their\\nsongs over the stricken field the battle srnell was drowned in\\nthe fragrance of the flowering spring. And the ragged soldier\\nof the South, God bless him I stood there facing the dread\\nreality, more terrible than death stood there to grapple with\\nand face down despair, for he had done his all. and all was lost,\\nsave Honor!\\nSURKENDEK.\\nGeneral Lee, dressed in his best uniform, rides to the front\\nto meet General Grant. For several days demands forsurren.\\nder had been rejected now surrender was inevitable. And\\nthe two commanding ofiicers meet at the McLean House to\\nconcert its terms. The first and abiding thought of Lee was\\nthe honor of his n:ien, for he had determined to cut his way\\nthrough at all hazards, if such terms were not granted as he\\nthought his army was entitled to demand. General, said\\nLee, addressing Grant, and opening the conversation, I deem\\nit due to proper candor and frankness to say at the beginning\\nof this interview that 1 am not willing even to discuss any\\nterms of surrender, inconsistent with the honor of my army,", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48\\nwhich I am deterinincd to maintain to the last. Grant gave\\nfitting and magnanimous response, and the honorable terms\\ndemanded were agreed to. The officers to retain their side\\narms, private horses and baggage, and each officer and man to\\nbe allowed to return to his liome, and, mark it, not to he dis-\\nturhed by United States authority as long as they observe their\\nparole, and the laws in force lohere they reside.\\nThus at last was the liberty of the soldier purchased with\\nhis blood.\\nAnd so the Army of Xorthern Virginia, never broken in\\nbattle, passed from action into History so it perished by the\\nflashing of the guns, while victory hung charmed to its flag,\\nand threw upon its tomb the immortelles of Honor.\\nThe old order changeth, yielding place to new,\\nAnd God fulfills himself in many ways.\\nFAREWELL.\\nMen, we have fought through the xoar together. I have\\ndone my best for you; my heart is too full to say more, was\\nLee s utterance to the ragged, battle-begrimmed boys in gray,\\nwlio, when the dread news ol surrender spread among them,\\ngathered around him to shake his hand and testify tlieir undy-\\ning confidence and love. In his pubHslied address he said to\\nthem You will carry with you the satisfaction that proceeds\\nfrom the consciousness of duty faithfully performed, and I\\nearnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you his\\nblessing and protection. With an unceasing admiration of\\nyour constancy and devotion to your country, and a grateful\\nremembrance of your kind and generous consideration of\\nmyself, I bid you an affectionate farewell.\\nAs Robert Lee rode from Appomattox toward Richmond,\\nhe carried with him the heart of ever} man that fought under\\nhim linked to him with hooks of steel forever. When he\\nreached the fallen Capital of the dead Confederacy, and rode\\nthrough its ashes and paling fires to his home, a body of Fed-\\neral soldiers there, catching a glimpse of his noble countenance,\\nlifted their hats and cheered; and as the great actor in the", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "49\\nbloody dnirna stepped behind the scenes, and the curtain fell\\nupon the tragic stage of the secession war, the last sounds that\\ngreeted his ears were the generous salutations of respect from\\nthose against whom he had wielded his knightly sword.\\nRETIREMENT, COUNSEL AND ACCErTANCE OF THE SITUATION;.\\nHad the paroled soldier of Appomattox carried to retirement\\nthe vexed spirit and hollow heart of a ruined gamester, nothing\\nhad remained to him but to drain the dregs of a disappointed\\ncareer. But there went with him that consciousness of duty\\nfaithfully performed, which consoles every rebuff of fortune,\\nsweetens every sorrow, and tempers every calamity and now\\nit was that he proved indeed what he once expressed in lan-\\nguage, that Human fortitude should be equal to human\\nadversity. Once on the Appomattox lines agony had tortured\\nfrom his lips the M^ords How easily I could get rid of this\\nand be at rest. I have only to ride along the lines, and all will\\nbe over. But he cjuickly added It is our duty to live, for\\nwhat will become of the Avomeu and children of the South if\\nwe are not here to protect them V And as the thought of his\\ncountry v-as thus uppermost and controlling in the awful hour\\nof surrender, so it remained to the closing of his life. Ere\\nthe struggle ended he had disclosed to a confidential friend.\\nGeneral Pendleton, that he never believed we could, against\\nthe gigantic combination for our subjugation, make good our\\nindependence, unless foreign powers, directly or indirectly,\\nassisted us. But said he, We had sacred principles to main-\\ntain and rights to defend, for which we were in duty bound to\\ndo our best, even if we perished in the endeavor. And now\\nthat this belief was verified, he declared I. did only what my\\nduty demanded. I could have taken no other course without\\ndishonor. And if all were to be done over again, I should act\\nin precisely the same manner. And when those about him\\nmourned the great disaster, he said Yes, that is all very sad,\\nand might be a cause of self-reproach, but that we are conscious\\nthat we have humbly tried to do our duty. We may, there-\\nfore, with calm satisfaction, trust in God, and leave results to\\nHim.", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50\\nLee tlioronghlj understood and tlioroughly accepted the\\nsituation. He realized fully that the war had settled, settled\\nforever, the peculiar issues which had embroiled it but he\\nknew also that only time could dissipate its rankling passions\\nand restore freedom and hence it was he taught that Silence\\nand patience on the part of the South was the true course\\nsilence, because it was vain to speak when prejudice ran too\\nhigh for our late enemies to listen patience, because it was\\nthe duty of the hour to labor for recuperation and wait for\\nreconciliation. And murmuring no vain sigh over the might\\nhave been, which now could not be conscious that our des-\\ntinies were irrevocably bound up with those of the perpetual\\nUnion, he lifted high over the fallen standards of war the\\nbanner of the Prince of Peace, emblazoned w^ith Peace on\\nEarth and Good Will toward Men.\\nThe President and Congress of the United States made con-\\nditions of pardon and absolution. They were harsh and exact-\\ning. The mass of the people affected by them, of necessity,\\nhad to accept them. Therefore he would share their humilia-\\ntion. Accordingly he asked amnesty. But his letter was\\nnever answered. He was indicted for treason. He appeared\\nready to answer the charge. But the government now revolted\\nfrom an act of treachery so base, for his parole of Appomattox\\nprotected him. Thus was he reviled and harrassed, yet never\\nword of bitterness escaped him but, on the contrary, only\\ncounsels of forbearance, patience and diligent attention to\\nworks of restoration. Many sought new homes in foreign\\nlands, but not so he. All good citizens, he said, must\\nunite in honest efforts to obliterate the effects of war, and to\\nrestore the blessings of peace. They must not abandon their\\ncountry, but go to work and build up its prosperity. The\\nyoung men especially must stay at home, bearing themselves\\nin such a manner as to gain the esteem of every one, at the\\nsame time tliat they maintain their own ]-espect. It should\\nbe the object of all to avoid controversy, to allay passion, and\\ngive scope to every kindly feeling. It is wisest not to keej)\\nopen the sores of war. but to follow the example of tluise na-", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "51\\ntions who have endcavorod to obliterate the marks of civil\\nstrife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered.\\nTrne patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly\\ncontrary at one period to that which it does at another, and the\\nmotive that impels them, the desire to do right, is precisely the\\nsame; The circumstances which govern their actions change,\\nand their conduct must conform to the new order of thinjrs.\\nHistory is full of illustrations of this. Washington himself is\\nan example of this. At one time he fought against the French\\nunder Braddock at another time he fought with the French\\nat Yorktown, under the orders of the Continental Congress of\\nAmerica, against him. He has not been branded by the world\\nwith reproach for tliis, but his course has been applauded.\\nThese were some of the wise and temperate counsels with which\\nhe pointed out the duties of the hour.\\nJEFFEKSON DAVIS.\\nXor was he lacking in faithful remembrance of the Presi-\\ndent of the Confederacy, who for months and months after\\nsurrender lay sick and in prison, and who seemed to be singled\\nout to undergo vicarious punishment for the deeds of the peo-\\nple. Mr. Davis, truly said General Lee, did notliing more\\nthan all the citizens of the Southern States, and should not be\\nheld accountable for acts performed by them, in the exercise\\nof what had been considered by them unquestionable right.\\nNone are more conscious of this fact than those against whom Jef-\\nferson Davis directed the Confederate arms and that he yet,\\nnearly twenty years after strife has ceased, should be disfran-\\nchised in a land that vaunts its freedom, for so doing, is a griev-\\nance, and a grief to every honorable Southern man. He him-\\nself is honored by this significant mark of hostile memoiw.\\nHe cannot suffer by the ignoble act. Only they Mdio do it are\\ndeeply ashamed. And that it is done, only shows the weakness\\nof representatives who have not read the very title page in the\\nbook of human nature, and who, vainly conceiving that an\\ninsult to one man can be fruitful of any public good, only\\nillustrate the saying of Madame de Stael, that the strongest of", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "u\\nall an.tipatliies is that of second-rate minds for a first-rate one,\\nand that other maxim of Edmnnd Burke, that great empires\\nand little minds go ill together. When Marc Antony, the\\ngreat Triumvir of Home, who conquered Egypt, was himself\\noverthrown by Octavius Csesar, he gloried dying that he had\\nconquered as a Roman, and was by a Roman nobly conquered.\\nIf the spirit of those brave soldiers of the Union, who, while\\nthe fields of battle were yet moist with blood, saluted Lee, had\\nguided the conduct of the civilians to whom their valor gave\\nthe reins of State, it would have been for us Confederates who\\nachieved great victories, and were in turn cast down, to have\\ngloried likewise, that we in our time had conquered as Ameri-\\ncans, and were by Americans nobly conquered. But when we\\nrecall that our honored and faithful President is disfranchised\\nsimply because he was our chief, and bravely, ablj^ served our\\ncause, the iron enters our souls and represses the generous\\nemotions that well up in them. And we can only lament that\\nshallow politicians have proven un worth} of the American name,\\nand are not imbued with the great free spirit of a great free\\npeople. We have not a thought or fimcy or desire to undo the\\nperpetuity of the Union. For any man to pretend to think\\notherwise is ju-oclamation of his falsehood, or his folly. But\\nwe intend to be free citizens of the Union, accepting no badge\\nof inferiority or h^shonor. And by the tomb of our dead hero,\\nwho was true to his chief, as to every trust, we ])rotest to man-\\nkind against this unjust thing an offence to our liberties and\\nto our manhood, which are not less sacred than the grave.\\nAnd we waft to him, our late Chief Magistrate, in his South-\\nern home, our greetings and our blessings and as the years grow\\nthick upon him, we pray that he may find in the unabated\\nconfidence and affection of his people, some solace for all that\\nhe has borne for them and in the strength that cometh from\\non high, a staff that man cannot take from him.\\nMEDriATIONS OF DUTV.\\nWhile General Lee thus sustained and cheered his country-\\nmen, the problem soon began to press, what should he do with", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "53\\nhimself Aiul had lie Ikhjii in an j sense a self-seeker, the solu-\\ntion had been easy, for many M-ere the overtures and profifers\\nmade to him in every form of interested solicitation, and dis-\\ninterested generosity. Would lie seek recreation from the\\ntrials which for years iiad strained every energy of mind and\\nbody, and every emotion of his heart, the palaces of European\\nnobility, the homes of the Old World and the New, alike, opened\\ntheir doors to him as a welcome and honored guest. Would\\nhe prolong his military career? More than one potentate would\\nhave been proud to receive into his service his famous sword.\\nWould he retrieve his fortunes and surround his declining years\\nwith luxury and wealth? He had but to yield the sanction of\\nhis name to any oni^ of the many enterprises that commercial\\nprinces commended to his favor, with every assurance of munifi-\\ncent reward. And indeed, were he willing to accept, unlimited\\nmeans were placed at his disposal by those who would have been\\nproud to render him any service.\\nBut it had been the principle of Lee s life to accept no\\ngratuitous offer. He had declined the gift of a home tendered\\nto him by the citizens of Richmond during the war, when\\nArlington had been confiscated, and the refuge of his family,\\nthe White House, had been burned, expressing the hope\\nthTit those who offered the gift would devote the means re-\\nquired to the relief of the families of our soldiers in the\\nfield, who are more deserving of assistance, and more in want\\nof it than myself. And now when an English nobleman pre-\\nsented him as a retreat a splendid country seat in England,-\\nwith a handsome annuity to correspond, he answered I am\\ndeeply grateful, but I cannot consent to desert my jiative State\\nin the hour of her adversit3\\\\ I must abide her fortunes and\\nshare her ftite. And declining also the many positions with\\nlucrative salaries which were urged upon Jiis acceptance, it was\\nhis intention to locate in one of the Southside counties of Vir-\\nginia, upon a small farm where he might earn his daily\\nbread in cultivating the soil, and at the same time to write a\\nhistory of his campaigns not, as he said, to vindicate\\nmyself, and promote my own reputation, but to show the world", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54\\nwhat our poor boys witli their small nnmhers and scant re-\\nsources had succeeded in accomplishing.\\nBut circumstances, then to him unknown, were bringing an\\nevent to pass which turned over a new and unexpected leaf in\\nhis history an event which made a little scion of knowledge,\\nwhich had been nurtured through the storms of the Colonial\\nRevolution, a great and noble University, and which now has\\nassociated in the glorious work of education, as in glorious deeds\\nof arms, the twin names of Washington and Lee.\\nLIBERTY HALL ACADEMY.\\nIt was nearly a century after the settlement at Jamestown,\\nthat Governor Spotswood of Virginia, at tlie head of a troop\\nof horse, first explored the hitliorto unknown land beyond the\\nmountains, and upon his return from the expedition, the Gov-\\nernor presented to each of his bold companions a golden horse-\\nshoe, inscribed with the legend Sic jurat transcendere\\nmonies, as a memorial of the event; a circumstance ;vhich\\ncaused them to be named in history, The Knights of the\\nGolden Horseshoe. In August, 1716, these adventurous spirits\\nfirst looked down from the heights of the Blue Hidge upon the\\nbeautiful Yalley of Virginia, a virgin land indeed, tenanted\\nonly by the roving red men. Glorious must have been the\\nthrill of joy that quickened their hearts, as the tempting vision\\nlay spread before them, as their eyes ranged over the fields and\\nforests of this new land of promise in its summer sheen, a\\nland watered with many rivers, and especially with that beau-\\ntiful and abounding river, the Shenandoah, which the Indians\\nnamed The Daughter of the Stars.\\nBut prophetic as may have been the glance that saw in the\\nfruitful valley the future home ot a great and thriving people,\\nslow were the footsteps that followed the pioneers and occupied\\nthe hunting-grounds of the receding Indians. For in those\\ndays immigration was not quickened by steam and electricity,\\nand early tradition had pictured the transmontane country as a\\nbarren and gloomy waste, infested with serpents and wild beasts\\nand brutal savages.", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "But erewliile the reports of Spotswood and__^his men went for\\nand wide, and the Star of Empire beamed over tlie Allegha-\\nnies. And along in 1730 and 174-0, we find the spray of tiie\\nincoming tide bi-eaking over the nnountains the sturdy Scotch-\\nIrish for the most part, with some Germans and Englishmen,\\npouring into the Valley from Pennsylvania and Eastern Vir-\\nginia, and from the fatherlands over the water. JSTot speculative\\nadventurers were they, with the ambition of landlords, but bring-\\ning with them rifle and Bible, wife and child, and simple house-\\nhold goods home-seekers and home-builders, who had heard\\nof the goodly land, and who had come to stay, and who built\\nthe meeting-house and the school-house side by side when they\\ncame. Rough men were they ready to hew their way to free\\nand pleasant homes but in nowise coarse men, for they were\\nfilled with high purpose, and religion and knowledge they knew\\nshould be hand-maids of each other. And showing their in-\\nstinctive refinement, where the corn waved its tassels and the\\nwheat bowed to the wind, by their rude log huts in the wilder-\\nness there also the vine clambered, and the rose and lily bloomed.\\nIn 17 10, near Greeneville, in Augusta county\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and Augusta\\ncounty was then an empire stretching from the Blue Kidge\\nmountains to the Mississippi river in 1749 Robert Alexander,\\na Scotch-Irish immigrant, who was a Master of Arts of Trinity\\nCollege, Dublin, established there The Augusta Academy\\nthe first classical school in the Valley of Virginia. Under his\\nsuccessor. Rev. John Brown, the academy was first moved to\\nOld Providence, and again to Xew Providence church,\\nand just before the Revolution, for a third time, to Mount\\nPleasant, near Fairfield, in the now county of Rockbridge.\\nIn 1776, as the revolutionary fires were kindling, there came\\nto its head as principal William Graham, of worthy memory,\\nwho had been a class-mate and special friend of Harry I,oe at\\nPrinceton College and at the first meeting of the trustees\\nafter the battle of Lexington, while Harrj Lee was donning\\nhis sword for battle, they baptized it as Liberty flail Academy.*\\nAnother removal followed, in 1777, to near the old Timbei-\\nRidge church but finally, in 1785, the academy rested from", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56\\nits wanderings near Lexington, the little town which too had\\ncaught the flame of revolution, and was the first to take the\\nname of that early battle-ground of the great rebellion, where\\nThe embattled farmers stood\\nAnd fired the shot heard round the world.\\nWASHINGTON ACADEMY AND WASHINGTON COLLEGE.\\nShortly after the close of the Revolutionary war, the Legis-\\nlature of Yirginia, in token of esteem and admiration for the\\nvirtues and services of General George Washington, donated\\nhim one hundred shares of stock in the old James River Com-\\npany. General Washington, in a characteristic manner, declined\\nto accept the donation save only on the condition that he be\\npermitted to appropriate it to some public purjjose in the\\nupper part of the State, such as the education of the chil-\\ndren of the poor, particularly the children of such as have fallen\\nin defence of the country. The condition granted. President\\nWashington, in 1790 for he had then become President of\\nthe New Republic dedicated the one hundred shares of stock\\nto the use of Liberty Hall Academy in Rockbridge county.\\nMayhap the friendship between William Graham, its principal,\\nand his old class-mate at Princeton, Light Horse Harry Lee,\\nthe friend of Washington, had something to do in guiding tlie\\nbenefaction but be this as it may, it was given and accepted,\\nand in honor of the benefactor the academy was clothed with\\nhis immortal name.\\nIn acknowledging the thanks expressed to him by the Board\\nof Trustees, President Washington said To promote litera-\\nture in this rising empire and to encourage the arts has ever\\nbeen amongst the warmest wishes of my heart and if the do-\\nnation which the generosity of the Legislature of the Common-\\nwealth has enabled me to bestow upon Liberty Hall now by\\nyour politeness called Wasiiington Academy is likely to prove\\na means to accomplish these ends, it will contribute to the\\ngratification of my desires.\\nSoon after this, the Legislature, which had already incorpo-\\nrated the institution on a comprehensive basis, gave it the name", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "57\\nof The College of Washington in Virginia a name, how-\\never, which the trustees did not accept until 1812. In the spirit\\nof their beloved commander, The Cincinnati Society, com-\\nposed of survivors of the Revolutionary war, on dissolving in\\n1803, donated their funds, amounting to nearly $25,000, to the\\ninstitution which had received his patronage and bore his name\\nand, thus endowed, it went forward in a career which, for nearly\\nthree-score years and ten, was a pei iod of uninterrupted useful-\\nness, prosperity and honor.\\nAll ranks of honorable enterj^rise and ambition in this rising\\nempire felt the impress of the noble spirits who came forth\\nfrom its halls, trained and equipped for life s arduous tasks with\\nkeenest weapons and brightest armor. Wliat glowing names\\nare these that shine on the rolls of the alumni of this honored\\nAlma Mater! Church and State, Field and Forum, Bar and\\nBench, Hospital and Counting-Iioom, Lecture-Room and Pulpit\\nwhat famous champions and teachers of the right, what trusty\\nworkers and leaders in literature and law, and arts, and arms,\\nhave they not found in her sons Seven Governors of States\\namongst them Crittenden, of Kentuckj^, and McDowell, Letcher,\\nand Kemper, of Virginia eleven United States Senators\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\namongst them Parker, of Virginia, Breckinridge, of Kentucky,\\nH. S. Foote, of Mississippi, and William C. Preston, of South\\nCarolina; more than a score of Congressmen, two-score and\\nmore of judges amongst them Trimble, of the United States\\nSupreme Court Coalter, Allen, Anderson, and Burks, of the\\nCourt of Appeals of Virginia; twelve or more college presi-\\ndents, and amongst them Moses Hoge and Archibald Alexan-\\nder, of Hampden-Sidney, James Priestlj^, of Cumberland\\nCollege, Tennessee and G. A. Baxter and Henry Ruifner (who\\npresided here), and Socrates Maupin, of the University of Vir-\\nginia. These are but a few of those who here garnered the\\nlearning that shed so gracious a light in the after-time on them,\\ntheir country, and their Alma Mater. And could I pause to\\nIn 1796 the Legislatui e of Virginia undertook to erect tlie Academy into a\\nCollege under tlie name of tlie College of Washington. Tlie board of trustees\\nresisted the enactment as an infringement of the rights of tlie corporation and\\nthiir grave anil Ibreible protest was said by the late Hugli Blair Grigsby, in an\\naddress delivered in 1S7U, to have been the basis of the brief of Mr. Webster in\\nthe great Dartmouth College case. The act was repealed in response to this re-\\nmonsti ance. The name of Washington College was finally adopted in 1812.", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58\\nspeak of those who became valiant leaders of men in battle, 1\\ncould name many a noble soldier whose eye greets mine to-day;\\nand, alas I should recall the form of many a hero who passed\\nfrom these halls in the flash of youthful manhood, and has long\\nslept wuth the unreturning brave; for in 1861, when the\\ncalls to arms resounded, The Liberty- Plall Volunteers the\\nstudents of Washington College were among the first (and in\\na body) to respond; and when the quiet professor of your twin\\ninstitute was baptized in history as Stonewall Jackson, tiieir\\nblood o erflowed the christening urn and reddened Manassas\\nfield, and from Manassas to Appomattox, under Joseph E.\\nJohnston, and Thomas J. Jackson, and llobert E. Lee, the boys\\nand the men of Washington College proved that they were\\nworthy of their leaders, worthy of tlieir State and country, and\\nworthy of all good fame.\\nTHE FATE OF WAR.\\nUnsparing war spared not the shrine where breathed into the\\narts of peace, yet lived the spirit and was perpetuated the name\\nof the Father of his Country. When in 1864 David Hunter\\nled an invading army against the State from whose blood he\\nsprung, he came not as comes the noble champion eager to strike\\nthe strong,. and who realizes that he meets an equal and a gen-\\nerous foe, Lee had penetrated the year before to the heart of\\nPennsylvania, and the Southern infantry had bivouacked on\\nthe banks of the Susquehanna.\\nWhen he crossed the Pennsylvania line, he had announced in\\ngeneral orders, from the headquarters of the Army of Northern\\nVirginia, that he did not come to take vengeance; that we\\nmake war only upon armed men, and he therefore earnestly\\nexhorted the troops to abstain with most scrupulous care from\\nunnecessarj or wanton injury of private property, and en-\\njoined upon all ofiicers to arrest and bring to summary punish-\\nment all who should in any way offend against the orders on\\nthe subject. He had been obeyed by his lieutenants and his\\nmen. iNo charred ruins, no devastated fields, no plundered\\nhomes marked the line of his march. On one occasion, to set", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "5\u00c2\u00ab\\na good example, he was seen to dismount from liis horse and\\npnt np a farmer s fence. In the citj of York General Early\\nhad in general orders prohibited the burning of buildings con-\\ntaining stores of war, lest fire might be communicated to neigh-\\nboring homes; and General Gordon, in his public address, had\\ndeclared If a torch is applied to a single dwelling, or an in-\\nsult offered to a female of your town by a soldier of this com-\\nmand, point me out the man, and you shall have his life. The\\nbattle of Gettysburg had raged around Gettysburg College,\\nbut when it ended the college stood scathless, save by the acci-\\ndents of war. But when David Hunter invaded Virginia, he\\ncame to make war on the weak and helpless, and he was as\\nruthless to ruin as he was swift to evade battle and to retreat.\\nHe blistered the land which he should have loved and honored,\\nand a broad, black path marked his trail. From the summit\\nof those mountains where Spotswood first spied the Valley,\\ncould be counted at one time the flames ascending from 118\\nburning houses. The Virginia Military Institute was burned,\\nand the very statue of Washington which adorned it vras carried\\noff as a trophy. Washington College was dismantled, its scien-\\ntific apparatus destroyed, its library sacked, its every apartment\\npillaged. The hand of war indeed fell heavily here, and when\\nthe Southern cause went down at Appomattox, Washington\\nCollege remained scarce more than a ruinous and desolate relic\\nof better days. Four professors, a handful of students, and the\\nbare buildings, were all that was left of it.\\nPRESIDEiSTT OF WASHINGTON COLLEGE.\\nIn August, 18G5, the trustees of Washington College met.\\nThe situation they contemplated was deplorable and depressing.\\nTheir invested funds were unproductive. Their treasury was\\nempty. The State was prostrate and bankrupt. In the sky of\\nthe future there was scarcely a ray of light. But they were\\nresolved to face difficulties and to do the best they could. One\\nof the trustees, Colonel Bolivar Christian, of Staunton, sug-\\ngested that General Lee be invited to accept the Presidency of\\nthe Institution. There was but little anticipation that he would\\nincline to their wishes. The position could not be very remu-", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60\\nnerative, it involved tedious and perplexing tasks, and it did\\nnot seem commensurate with the abilities, nor altogether fitting\\nto the tastes of a great commander who had so long dealt with\\nthe vast and active concerns of military life but the sugges-\\ntion was unanimously adopted, and Hon. John W. Brocken-\\nbrough, Eector of the Board, was appointed to apprise General\\nLee of the fact. At fiirst General Lee hesitated. He modestly\\ndistrusted his own competency to fulfill the trust, and he feared\\nthat the hostility of the Government towards him might direct\\nadverse influences against the Institution which it was proposed\\nto commit to his care. These considerations being successfully\\ncombated by those who knew how high his qualifications were,\\nand how great were his attractions, General Lee accepted the\\nposition tendered him, and on the 2nd of October, 1865, he\\ntook the oath of office before the Rev. W. S. White\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the old-\\nest Christian minister of Lexington\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and M^as duly installed in\\nthe presence of the trustees, professors, and students, as Presi-\\ndent of Washington College. On the eve of acceptance, two\\npropositions were made to General Lee one to become Presi.\\ndent of a large corporation, with a salary of $10,000 per annum\\nanother to take the like office in another corporation, with a\\nsalary of $50,000. But he had made up his mind to come\\nhei-e, and this is what he said to a friend who brought him the\\nlast munificent offer\\nI have a self-imposed task which I must accomplish. I have\\nlead the young men of the South in battle; I have seen many\\nof them fall under my standard. I shall devote my life now\\nto training young men to do their duty in life.\\nThis was the high resolve that brought him here, and Robert\\nE. Lee seemed to be the great, heroic Captain when he stood\\nbefore the Virginia Convention with superb courage and daunt-\\nless mien, and devoted his sword to his native State, he\\nseemed informed with a spirit that gathered its strength and\\nloveliness from Heaven, when he stood here and consecrated\\nhis remaining years to training up to life s duties, the sons,\\nbrothers and comrades of those who had followed him in bat-\\ntle. Young men of the South to him who thus stood by", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "61\\nus, wc owe a debt immeasurable, and as long as oiirraee is upon\\nearth, let our children and our children s childen hold that debt\\nsacred.\\nGKNKUAL lee s ADMINISTRATION AS COLLEGE PRESIDENT.\\nGeneral Lee was eminently qu-dified for the task assumed.\\nHis own education had been liberal and thorough. In his\\nyouth he had been grounded by his tutors in a knowledge of\\nancient history, and of the dead languages, the Latin and the\\nGreek, and the tastes thus early stimulated had been preserved\\nand cultivated in after years. As a cadet at West Point he\\ngraduated second in a distinguished class, excellence of conduct\\nand excellence of attainment going hand in hand. Appointed\\nan officer of Engineei^s when he entered the army, and often\\ncharged with most important works, the duties devolved upon\\nhim required assiduous study and research. Still later, after he\\nreturned with great distinction from Mexico, he became the\\nSuperintendent and Head of the Military Academy at West\\nPoint, and occupying that ])osition for three years, he acquired\\nexperience and developed capacities which singularly fitted him\\nfor the sphere wdiich he nov/ entered the training of youth.\\nIt is iifdicative of his comprehensive views of education, that\\nduring his superintendency at West Point, the course of study\\nwas extended to live years and greatly enlarged in its scope.\\nAnd wlien he entered upon his duties here, it was soon evident\\nthat he possessed every qualification to direct with signal suc-\\ncess, the affairs of the Institution, and to mould the characters\\nand minds of those confided to his care.\\nIt was understood from the time of his inauguration that he\\nwould not himself act as teacher of any class but would have\\nin charije the business and financial concerns of the Collegce\\nits educational curriculum, and the discipline of its students\\nand from first to last, he devoted himself to these tasks with un-\\nceasing assiduity and success.\\nEverything here felt with his presence a renovating and pro-\\ngressive impulse. Nothing escaped his attention, from the\\nsmallest detail of business to the gravest question of educa-", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62\\ntional policj/ and in whatever concerned the well-being of\\nthe College, its Faculty and its students, his discerning judg-\\nment and his sympathetic heart worked out the ri^ht result.\\nUnder his supervision the buildings were repaired, the accom-\\nmodations enlarged, the chemical and philosophical apparatus\\nreplaced, the library replenished and reformed. He it was who\\nselected the site of on Chapel which now guard his mortal\\nremains his was the hand that draughted the plan, and his\\nthe eye that saw its parts conjoined together. No figure-head\\nwas he, but a worker, and doer, bringing things to pass as the}\\nshould be.\\nPrior to his administration, there were but five Chairs of In-\\nstruction, several Departments being combined under one pro-\\nfessional head\\n1. Mental and Moral Science, and political economy.\\n2. Latin Language and Literature.\\n3. Greek Language and Literature.\\n4. Mathematics and Physical Science.\\n.5. Chemistry and Natural Philosophy.\\nSpeedily after his accession, three new Chairs were added,\\nand Professors elected to fill them the Chair of Natural Phi-\\nlosophy, embracing, in addition to physics, Acoustics, Optics,\\nSzc, the various subjects of Natural and Applied Mechanics\\nthe Cliair of Applied Mathematics, embracing Astronom}^\\nCivil and Military Engineering and Chair of Modern Lan-\\nguages, to whieli was added English Philosophy. In the\\nsecond year of his incumbency the Chair of History and English\\nLiterature was established, and soon afterwards the department\\nof Law and Equity, under that eminent jurist, Judge John\\nW. Brockenbrough.\\nSeveral other Chairs were included in the President s pro-\\ngramme, one of the Englisli Language, one of Applied\\nChemistry, and also, A School of Medicine, a School of\\nJournalism and a School of Commerce tlie latter being\\ndesigned to give special instruction and systematic training in\\nwhatever pertained to business in the most enlarged sense of the\\nterm. Amongst other changes introduced by General Lee was", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "the substitution of the elective system instead of a fixed enn-i-\\nculum and the system of discipline wliich he adopted, in no\\nwise partaking of the military type, to which it might have\\nbeen supposed his disposition would incline\u00e2\u0080\u0094 was that wliich\\nhas so long prospered at the University of Virginia; a system\\nwhich ignored espionage and compulsion, and put every stu-\\ndent upon a manly sense of honor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a system which, especially\\nwith young men not too immature to appreciate it, and which,\\nwith all men who have the capacity of being gentlemen, is the\\nbest calculated to develop the virtuous and independent ele-\\nments of character. Here for five years the General devoted\\nhimself to the cause of education, and here under him that\\ncause nobly flourished. Here he demonstrated that compre-\\nhensive grasp of every subject coimected with his sphere and\\nthe keen appehension of the demands of tliis progressive ao-e,\\nand of a land entering as it were upon a new birth. His asso-\\nciates in the Faculty loved him as a father, and all who saw or\\nknew his work, with common voice proclaimed the conviction\\nexpressed by one of the most distinguished of his associates,\\nthat he was the best College President that this country has\\never produced.\\nHis work has been established, and though the great Chief\\nhas fallen by the way, one wlio bears his name, and who is\\nworthy of it, has taken up the lines that fell from his hands\\nand under him, with God s blessing, the good cause goes on\\nprospering and to prosper.\\nAnd so happily it has come to pass that the little school of\\nthe pioneers, planted in the wilderness, is to-day a great univer-\\nsity that the ambition of William Graham, the college mate\\nof Henry Lee, has been realized beyond its sweetest dream\\nthat the college which the Father of his Country lifted up\\nby his generosity from a struggling academy to educate the\\nchildren of those who had fallen in its defense,- and which was\\nblighted to tiie verge of destruction, has been restoi ed and\\nmagnified by the hand of him who alone of all men, living or\\ndead, now equally shares with his illustrious prototype, the\\neulogy pronounced by his own sire. Light Horse Harry Lee", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64\\nFirst in Peace, first in War, and first in the hearts of his\\nCountrymen r\\nLEE THE MAN HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE.\\nThus feebly and imperfectly have I attempted to trace tlic\\nmilitary acluevemenits and services of him to whose memory\\nthis day is dedicated. Lee the General, stands abreast with the\\ngreatest captains of all time, and Lee the Patriot, has universal\\nhomage. It is now of Lee the Man, that I would speak\\nIn personal appearance. General Lee was a man whom once\\nto see was ever to remember. His figure was tall, erect, well\\nproportioned, lithe and graceful. A fine head, with broad,\\nuplifted brow, and features boldly but yet delicately chiseled,\\nbore the high aspect of one born to command. The firm yet\\nmobile lips, and the thick-set jaw, were expressive of daring\\nand resolution and the dark sciutillant eye flashed with the\\nlight of a brilliant intellect and a fearless spirit. His whole\\ncountenance, indeed, bespoke alike a powerful mind, and in-\\ndomitable will, yet beamed with charity, gentleness and benev-\\nolence. Li his manners, quiet, reserve, unaffected courtesy and\\nnative dignity, made manifest the character of one who can\\nonly be described by the name of gentleman. And taken all\\nin all, liis presence possessed that grave and simple majesty\\nwhich commanded instant reverence and repressed familiarity\\nand yet so charmed by a certain modesty and gracious defer-\\nence, that reverence and confidence were ever ready to kindle\\ninto affection. It was impossible to look upon him, and not to\\nrecognize at a glance that in him, nature gave assurance of a\\nman created great and good.\\nMounted in the field, and at the head of his troops, a glimpse\\nof Lee was an inspiration. His figure was as distinctive as that\\nof Napoleon.. Ah! soldiers! who can forget it The black\\nslouch hat, the cavalry boots, the dark cape, the plain gray coat\\nwithout an ornament but the three stars on the collar, the calm,\\nvictorious face, the splendid, manly figure on the gray warhorse,\\nthat steps as if proudly conscious of his rider he looked every", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "65\\ninch the true knight\u00e2\u0080\u0094 tlie grand, invincible champion of a great\\nprinciple.\\nMENTAL ArrJSIBUTES AND ATTAINMENTS.\\nThe intellectual abilities of General Lee were of the highest\\norder, and his attainments, scientific and literarv, were remark-\\nable for one who had devoted so many years of his life to the\\nexacting duties and details of the camp and the field. He read\\nmuch, digested what he read, and amplified his readings with\\nreflective power. But so modest and unpretentious was he\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nso chastened and retiring was his ambition, and his overshad-\\nowing military exploits had so fixed the admiring gaze of men,\\nthat when he came here few knew how rare were the ticcom-\\nplishments, and how versatile and adaptive was the genius of\\nthe gentleman who seemed by nature frame 1 to lead the ranks\\nand grace the habiliments of war. The training, habits and\\noccupations of the soldier seldom guide his footsteps to classic\\nhaunts, and when the great Captain is imhorsed and his trap-\\npings disappear, how often do we find that the soldier was a\\nsoldier only, and nothing more. But when Lee the soldier\\nstepped forth in civic dress, it was soon evident to all, as it had\\nbeen previously to those who knew him best, that here was one\\nfull panoplied to dignify and adorn any civic station one who\\ndisclosed himself in wide converse and correspondence em-\\nbracing all manner of delicate and diflicult situations, to possess\\nthat quality which is the consummate flower of wisdom\\nunerring judgment comlined loith exquisite taste. The litera-\\nture that may be found in the letters of the great, unfolds the\\nvery essence of the genius of the men and of the times they\\nlived in and in my humble judgment it were suflicient to read\\nthe letters written by General Lee, and which are collated in the\\nbeautiful memorial volume- prepared by Kev. Dr. J. Wm.\\nJones, to discern that the writer was one who profoundly com-\\nprehended the topics of the day, and wielded a pen as vio-orous\\nand polished as his sword. And when we contemplate in con-\\nnection with his deeds the fair and lofty character that is\\nPersonal Reminiscences, Anecdotes and Letters of General R. E. Lee\\nliy J. Wm. Jones, Secretary Southern Historical Society.", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66\\nmirrored in them, we behold one whose strong, equitable and\\nwide-reaching mind was such that liad he devoted it to juris-\\nprudence, had made the name of Justice as venerable and august\\nas when a Marshall enunciated the law who, had he been a\\nstatesman, had moulded the institutions of his country, and\\nguided its political currents with as wise, firm and temperate a\\nhand as that of Washington who, had he headed any of the\\ngreat corporate enterprises of transportation, commerce or de-\\nvelopment in which aggregated capital relies on scientific saga-\\ncity for groat works, had greatly aided the solution of many\\nperplexing problems that now agitate the public mind who,\\nhad he bent himself to literature, had produced a page filled\\nwith the glory and dignity of philosophic inquiry or historic\\ntruth one indeed so perfectly balanced in mind and v/ill, so\\nnobly turned in moral worth, so just in heart, so clear in thought,\\nand so authoritative .in direction that in any land where the\\ncomm-on sentiment can have spontaneous play, would, as inevi-\\ntably as the sparks fly upward, and by a law scarce less fixed\\nthan that which moves the planets in their course, have been\\nthe leading man in whatever he undertook, and would have\\nbeen called by one voice to become the Chief Magistrate of the\\npeople.\\nTEUE HEROISM THE HEROISM OF I.EE.\\nAs little things make up the sum of life, so they reveal the\\ninward nature of men and furnish keys to history. It is in the\\noffice, the street, the field, the workshop, and by the fireside,\\nthat men show what stuff they are made of, not less than in\\nthose eventful actions which write themselves in lightnings\\nacross the skies and mark the rise and fall of nations. iSTay,\\nmore the highest attributes of human nature are not disclosed\\nin action, but in self-restraint and repose. Self-restraint, as\\nhas been truly said by Thomas Hughes, is the highest form\\nof self-assertion.\\nIt is harder, as ever} soldier knows, to lie down and take the\\niire of batteries without returning it, than to rise and charge to\\nthe cannon s mouth. It is harder to give the soft answer that\\nturns away wrath than to retort a word with a blow. Do Long,", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "67\\nin the frozen Arctic wastes, dying alone inch bj inch of cold\\nand starvation, yet intent on his work, and writing lines for\\nthe benefit of others, deserved, as well as the Marshal of France\\nwho received it, the name of bravest of the brave. The\\nartless little Alabama girl, who was guiding General Forrest\\nalong a dangerous path when the enemy fired a volley upon\\nhim, and who instinctively spread her skirts and cried: Get\\nbehind me had a spirit as high as that which filled the bosom\\nof Joan of Arc or Charlotte Corday.\\nThe little Holland boy, who, seeing the water oozing through\\nthe dyke, and the town near by about to be deluged and de-\\nstroyed, neither cried nor ran, but stopped, and all alone, stifled\\nthe opening gap with earth, in instant peril of being swept to\\ndeath unhonored and unknown, show^ed a finer and nobler fibre\\nthan that of Cambronne wlien he shouted to the conquering\\nBritish The Guard dies, but never surrenders. The soldier\\nof Pompeii, buried at his post standing there, and flying not\\nfrom the hot waves of lava that rolled over him, tells the Roman\\nstory in grander language than the ruins of the Coliseum. And\\nHerndon, on the deck of his ship, doing all to save his passen-\\ngers, making deliberate choice of death before dishonor, and\\ngoing down into the great deep v.dth brow calm and unruffled,\\nis a grander picture of true, heroic temper than that of Caesar\\nleading his legions, or of the young Corsican at the Bridge of\\nLodi.\\nAmongst tlie quiet, nameless workers of the world in the\\nstubble field and by the forge, bending over a sick child s bed\\nor smoothing an outcast s pillow, is many a hero and heroine\\ntruer, nobler than those over M hose brows hang plumes and\\nlaurels.\\nIn action there is the stimulus of excited physical faculties,\\nand of the moving passions but in the composure of the calm\\nmind that quietly devotes itself to hard life-work putting aside\\ntemptations contemplating and rising superior to all surround-\\nings of adversity, suffering, danger and death, man is revealed\\nin his highest manifestation. Then, and then alone, he seems\\nto have redeemed his fallen state, and to bo recreated in God s", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "iraacje. At tlie bottom of all true heroism is unselfishness.\\nIts crowning expression is sacrifice. The world is suspicious\\nof vaunted heroes. Thej are so easily manufactured. So many\\nfeet are cut and trimmed to fit Cinderella s slippers that we hes-\\nitate long before we hail the Princess. But when the true\\nHero has come, and we know that here he is, in verity, Ah I\\nhow the hearts of men leap forth to greet him how worship-\\nfully we welcome God s noblest work the strong, honest,\\nfearless, npright man.\\nIn Robert Lee was such a hero vouchsafed to us and to man-\\nkind, and whether we behold him declining comnumd of the\\nFederal army to light the battles and share the miseries of his\\nown people proclaiming on the heights in front of Gettysburg\\nthat the fault of the disaster was his own; leading charges in\\nthe crisis of combat walking under the yoke of conquest with-\\nout a murmur of complaint or refusing fortunes to come here\\nand train the youth of his country in the path of dut} he is\\never the same meek, grand, self-sacrificing spirit. Here he\\nexhibited qualities not less worthy and heroic than those dis-\\nplayed on the broad and open theatre of conflict, when the eyes\\nof nations watched his every action. Here in the calm repose\\nof civil and domestic duties, and in the trying routine of inces-\\nsant tasks, lie lived a life as high as when, day by day, he mar-\\nshalled and led his thin and wasting lines, and slept b}- night\\nupon the field that was to be drenched again in blood upon\\nthe morrow.\\nHere in these quiet walks, far removed from war or battle s\\nsound, came into view, as when the storm o er past the moun-\\ntain seems a pinnacle of light, the landscape beams with fresher\\nand tenderer beauties, and the purple, golden clouds float above\\nus in the azure depths like the Islands of the Blest, so came\\ninto view the towering grandeur, the massive splendor and the\\nloving kindness of the cliaracter of General Lee, and the very\\nsorrows that overhung his life seemed luminous with celestial\\nhues. Here he revealed in manifold gracious hospitalities, ten-\\nder charities, and patient, wortiiy counsels, how deep and pure\\nand inexhaustible were the fountains of his virtues. And loviny;", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "(J9\\nhearts delio-lit to recall, as loving- lips will ever deli ^lit to tell,\\nthe thousand little things he did which sent forth lines of light\\nto irradiate the gloom of the eonqiiercvl land, and to lift up the\\nliopes and cheer the works of the people.\\nWas there a scheme of public improvement He took hearty\\ninterest in i)romoting its success in every way he could. Was\\nthere an enterprise of charity, or education, or religion, that\\nneeded friendly aid He gave it according to his store, and\\nsent with the gift words that were deeds. Was there a poor\\nsoldier in distress i Whoever else forgot him, it was not Lee.\\nWas there a proud spirit chafing under defeat, and breaking\\nforth in angry complaints and criminations, or a wanderer who\\nhad sought in other lands an unvexed retreat denied him here?\\nHe it w^as who with mild voice conjured restraint and patience,\\nrecalled the wanderer home and reared above the desolate\\nliearthstone the image of duty. xVnd whosoever mourned the\\nloved and lost, who had died in vain for the cause now perished,\\nhe it was who poured into the stricken heart the balm of sym-\\npathy and consolation.\\nHere, indeed, Lee, no longer the Leader, became, as it were,\\nthe Priest of his people, and the young men of Washington\\nCollege were but a fragment of those who found in his voice\\nand his example the shining signs that never misguided their\\nfootsteps.\\nINCIDENTS OF HIS LIFE AND ILLUSTii ATIONS OF HIS CUAKACTER.\\nMany are the illustrations and incidents which show how\\nbeautifully blended in his character were the sterner qualities\\nthat command respect, with the gentle traits that engage affec-\\ntion. And his quick apprehension of every natural beauty,\\nand keen sympathy, for all living things show the exquisite\\nsensibilities of his heart. J I is letters from Mexico teem with\\nexpressions of the delight with which he looked upon the\\nbright-winged birds and luxuriant flowers of that sunny land\\nand during the Confederate war, when cramped resources\\ndenied bestowal of the smallest tokens of friendship, we lind\\nhis letters to dear ones frequently laden with the Horal emblems", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "TO\\nof his constant thought and love. In one of tliein he says: I\\nsend you some sweet violets that I gathered for you this morn-\\ning while covered with the dense white frost whose crystals\\nglittered in the bright sun like diamonds, and formed a brooch\\nof rare beauty and sweetness which could not be fabricated by\\nthe expenditure of a world of money.\\nAnd when after the war he visited Alexandria, the scene of\\nhis boyhood days, one of his old neighbors found him gazing\\nover the palings of the garden where he used to play. I am\\nlooking, he said, to see if the old snow-ball trees are still\\nhere. I should be^sorry to miss them. How he loved, too,\\nthese grand mountains Amongst them, mounted on his faith-\\nful war-horse. Traveller, he often roamed while he spent his\\ndays amongst you. And here in nature s works he found\\nrefreshment from the toils of life, and looked from nature\\nup to nature s God.\\nHis tenderness was as instinctive as his valor. A writer\\nwho, on one occasion, stood in his company watching a fire in\\nthe mountains, relates how, when others were wrapt in its\\nscenic grandeur. General Lee remarked It is beautiful! but\\nI have been thinking of the poor animals that must perish in\\nthe flames. And another tells how, when in the lines near\\nRichmond, the bolts of battle swept the point where the Gen-\\neral stood, he ordered his attendants to the rear, and while\\nhimself calmly surveying the field under fire, he stopped to\\npick up a fledging sparrow that had fallen from its nest, and\\nrestore it to the bough overhead.\\nPictures, are these, full of infinite suggestion I\\nA Eobespierre and a Torquemada may exhibit emotional\\ntenderness, shallow and fitful, but that of Lee was the vital\\nprinciple of a robust, exalted nature, which found its inspira-\\ntions in the sacred heart of Charity, and diffused itself in cease-\\nless acts of magnanimity and love.\\nSo it was that while the passions of men were loosened, and\\nthe fierce work of war spread havoc and desolation far and\\nwide, he who directed its tremendous forces with stern and\\nnervous hand, moved also amongst its scenes of woe a gra-", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "cious and healing spirit. iSo it was to liiui a stricken foe was a\\nfoe no longer that his orders to the surgeons of his army were\\nto treat the wJiole field alike, and when, at Chancellorsvillc,\\nhe in person led the tempestnons assault that won the victory,\\nand stood amongst the wounded of the blue and glay, heaped\\naround him in indiscriminate carnage his iirst thought and\\ncare were for them, alike in their common suffering. So it was\\nthat whether in Pennsylvania, Maryland, or Virginia, he\\nrestrained every excess of conduct, and held the reckless and\\nthe ruthless within those bounds which duty sets to action. So\\nit was that to one homeless during the days of strife, he wrote\\nOccupy yourself in helping those more helpless than your-\\nself.^ So it was, that when the gallant General Phil. Kearney\\nfell at Ox Hill, he sent his sword and horse through the lines\\nto his mourning widow and that when Lincoln was struck\\ndown by an assassin s hand, he denounced the deed as a crime\\npreviously unknown to the country, and one that must be dep-\\nrecated by every American. And so, too, wlicu one day here,\\na man humbly clad souglit alms at his door, Lee pointed to his\\nretiring form and said That is one of our old soldiers who is\\nin necessitous circumstances. He fought on the other side, but\\nwe must not remember that against him now. And this poor\\nsoldier said of him afterwards: He is the noblest man that\\never lived. He not only had a kind word for me, but he gave\\nme some money to help me on my way. Better is that praise\\nthan any garland of the Poet or the Rhetorician.\\nTHE RELATIONS DETWEEN LEE AND HIS MEN.\\nAs we glance back through the smoke-drifts of his numy\\ncampaigns and battles, his kind, considerate acts towards his\\nofficers and men gleam tlirough them as brightly as their bur-\\nnished weapons; and they formed a fellowship as noble as that\\nwhich bound the Knights of the Round Table to Arthur, the\\nblameless King. His principle of discipline was indicated in\\nhis expression that a true man of honor feels liimself Iiuni-\\nbled when he cannot help humbling others, and never exer-\\ncising stern authority except when absolutely indispenfable, his", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72\\ninfluence was the more potent because it ever appealed to hon-\\norable motives and natural affections. In the dark days of the\\nRevolution, two Major-Generals conspired with a faction of the\\nContinental Congress to put Gates in the place of Washing-\\nton, denominating him a weak General. Kever did Con-\\nfederate dream a disloyal tliought of Lee, and the greater the\\ndisaster, the more his army leaned upon him.\\nWhen Jackson fell, Lee wrote to him You are better off\\ntlian I am, for while you have lost your left arm, I have lost\\nmy right arm. And Jackson said of Jiim Lee is a phe-\\nnomenon. He is the only man that I would follow blindfold.\\nMidway between Petersburg and Appomattox, with the ruins\\nof an Empire falling on his shoulders, and the gory remnants\\nof his army staggering under the thick blows of the advancing\\nfoe, we see Lee turning aside from the column, and riding up\\nto the home of the widow of the gallant Colonel John Thorn\\nton, who had fallen at Sharpsburg. I have not time to tarry,\\nhe says, but I could not pass by without stopping a moment\\nt6 pay my respects to the widow of my honored soldier. Colo-\\nnel Thorton, and tender her my deepest sympatiiy in the sore\\nbereavement she sustained when the country was deprived of\\nhis invaluable services.\\nThree of his sons were there in the army with him but they\\nwere too noble to seek, and he too noble to bestow, honors\\nbecause of the tie of blood. One of them, a private in the\\nartillery, served his gun with his fellows. Another is in a hos-\\ntile prison, and a Federal officer of equal rank begs that Gen-\\neral Lee will effect an exchange, the one for the other. The\\nGeneral declined, saying, that he will ask no favor for his\\nown son that could not be asked for the humblest j^rivate in the\\narmy. On the cars, crowded with passengers, a soldier, scarce\\nnoticed, struggles to draw his coat over his wounded arm. One\\nfrom amongst many rises and goes to his aid. It is General\\nLee. An array surgeon relates that wdiile the battle of the\\nCrater raged, General Lee rode to the rear of the line where\\nthe wounded lay, and, dismounting, moved amongst them.\\nDoctor, why are you not doing something for this man, he", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "said, pointing- to one sorely stricken. The Doctor raised tlie\\ngray jacket and pointed to the ghastly wound which made\\nlife hopeless. General Lee bent tenderly over the wounded\\nman and then in a voice tremulous with emotion, exclaimed\\nAlas poor soldier may God make soft his dying pillow.\\nSuch were some of the many acts that made the men love\\nLee. And in the fight he was ever ready to be foremost. Lee\\nthe Soldier, over-rode Lee the General, and when the pinch\\nand struggle came, there was he. Lee to the rear became\\nthe soldiei s battle-cry and oftentimes, when the long lines\\ncame gleaming on, and shot and shell in tempest ripped the\\nearth, uptore the forest and filled the air with death, those sol-\\ndiers in their rusty rags, paused as they saw his face amongst\\nthem and then, with manhood s imperious love, these sove-\\nreigns of the field commanded, Genei-al Lee, go back, as\\ntheir condition of advancing. And then forward to the death.\\nWas ever such devotion Yes, Lee loved his men as a father\\npitieth his children, and they loved him with a love that\\npasseth the love of woman, for they saw in him the iron hero\\nwho could lead the brave with front as dauntless as a warrior s\\ncrest, and the gentle friend who comforted the stricken with\\nsoul as tender as a mother s prayer.\\nFORGIVENESS.\\nLee had nothing in common with the little minds that know\\nnot how to forgive. His was the land that had been invaded\\nhis the people who were cut down, ravaged and ruined\\nhis the home that was torn away and spoliated his was the\\ncause that perished. He was the General discrowned of his\\nmighty place, and he the citizen disfranchised. Yet Lee for-\\ngave, and counselled all to forgive and forget.\\nThe Greek poet has said\\nThe firmest miad will fail\\nBeneath misfortune s stroke, and stunned, depart\\nFrom its sage plan of action.\\nBut the mind of Lee received the rude shock of destiny\\nwithout a quiver; so the genial currents of his sweet, heroic", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74\\nsoul rolled on unruffled, while in their calm, jHiro depths were\\nreflected the light of heaven.\\nWhen a minister once denounced the North, and the indict-\\nment of General Lee for treason, the general followed him to\\nthe door and said Doctor, there is a good old book which I\\nread, and you preach from, which says Love your enemies,\\nbless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and\\npray for them which dispitefully use you. Do you think your\\nremarks this evening were quite in the spirit of that teaching\\nAnd he added I have fought against the people of the\\nNorth because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the\\nSouth her dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward\\nthem bitter or vindictive feelings, and have never seen the day\\nwhen I did not pray for them.\\nSoon after the passage of those hai sli acts of Congress, dis-\\nfrancliising Confederates for participating in the war, and\\nwhile every Southern breast was filled with indignation, some\\nfriends in General Lee s presence expressed themselves with\\ngr\u00c2\u00abat bitterness. The General turned to the table near him,\\nwhere lay the manuscript of his father s life, which he was\\nthen editing, and read these lines\\nLearn from von Orient shell to love th} foe,\\nAnd store with pearls the hand that brings thee woe\\nFree like yon rock, from base, vindictive pride,\\nEmblaze with gems the wrist that rends thy side.\\nMark where yon tree rewards the stony shower,\\nWith fruit nectarious or the balmy flower\\nAll Nature cries aloud shall men do less\\nThan love the smiter, and the raiier bless\\nThese lines, said he, were written in Arabia, and by a\\nMahoraedan, the Poet of Shiraz, the immortal Ilafiz and\\nought not we, who profess to be governed by the principles of\\nChristianit} to rise at least to the standard of this Mahomedan\\npoet, and learn to forgive our enemies?\\nIn the rnsh of this age, a character so simply meek and so\\nproudly, grandly strong, is scarce comprehensible to the eager,\\nrestless competitors for wealth and place and power. And the\\npractical man, as he is called, who ever keeps a keen eye to", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "the TTiiain chance, and is esteemed happy just in proportion as\\nfortune favors his schemes of ambition or profit, is apt to\\nattribute weakness to one so void of selk-seeking and resent-\\nment, and so amiable and gentle in liis feelings and conduct\\ntowards his fellow-men. But could he have seen with what\\npatient attention to detail this ceaseless worker dispatched\\nbnsiness and brought great results from sm^all materials with\\nwhat quick, strong, comprehensive grasp he solved difficulties\\nand conquered dangers what good clieer he gave the toiling\\nwliat hope he gave the despondent what comfort he gave the\\nafflicted. Aye could he have caught the glance of that eagle\\neye, and looked on that serene, bold brow which over-awed the\\nfield of battle, and then beheld the swift, stern, inspiring\\nenergy which propelled its forces to deeds which seemed almost\\nimpossible to man there would have been to him a new rev-\\nelation. He would have beheld a character which, to one\\nunacquainted with it, would seem to have been idealized by\\nthe genius of the poet rather that to liave existed in the flesh,\\nand to have stepped forth from the sanctuary of romance\\nrather than to have belonged to real history. lie would liave\\nrealized, by contact with this simple gentleman, that the true\\ngreatness and true glory of man lies in those elements wliicli\\nare superior to fortune that he is most practical who is him-\\nself above it, and that happiness, if ever on earth happiness be\\nfound, has fixed her temple only in the heart that is without\\nguile, and is without reproach of man or woman.\\nTHE LAST DAYS OF Gf:XERAL LEE.\\nFive years rolled by while here the self-imposed mission\\nof Lee was being accomplislied, and now, in 1870, he had\\nreached the age of sixty-three. A robust constitution, never\\nabused by injurious habits, would doubtless have prolonged his\\nlife beyond the three-score years and ten which the Psalmist\\nhas ascribed as the allotted term of man but many causes\\nwere sapping and undermining it. The exposures of two wars\\nin whicli he had participated, and the tremendous strain on\\nnerves and heart and brain which his vast responsibilities and", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "76\\nhis accumulated trials had entailed, had been silently and grad-\\nually doing their work and now his step had lost something\\nof its elasticity, the shoulders began to stoo]i as if under a\\ngrowing burden, and the ruddy glow of health upon his coun-\\ntenance had passed into a feverish flush. Into his ears, and into\\nhis heart, had been poured the afflictions of his people, and\\nwhile composed and self-contained and uncomplaining, who\\ncould have looked upon that great face, over whose majestic\\nlineaments there stole the shade of sadness, without perceiving\\nthat grief for those he loved was gnawing at the heart strings?\\nwithout perceiving in the brilliant eye, which now and then had\\na far-away, abstracted gaze, that the soul within bore a sorrow\\nthat only Heaven could heal/\\nWhat he suffered his lips have never spoken. In the beau-\\ntiful language of another Ilis lips were closed like the gates\\nof some majestic temple, not for concealment, but because that\\nwithin was holy. Yet, let us take consolation to ourselves\\nthat there came to him much to give him joy. Around him\\nwere those united by the closest ties of blood and relationship\\nin unremitting fidelity. JSTot a man of those who ever fought\\nunder him aye, not one ever proved faithless in respect for\\nhim the great mass of them gave to him every expression in\\ntheir power of their affection. To the noble mind, sweet is the\\ngenerous and genuine praise of noble men, and for Lee there\\nwas full measure. He lived to see deeply laid the foundation,\\nand firmly built the pedestal, of his great glory, and to catch\\nthe murmur of those voices which would rear high his image\\nand bear his name and fame to remote ages, and distant nations.\\nThe brave and true of every land paid him tribute. Tlie first\\nsoldiers of foreign climes saluted him with eulogy the scholar\\ndecorated his page with dedication to his name, the artist\\nenshrined his form and features in noblest work of brush and\\nchisel, the poet hymned the heroic pathos of his life in tender,\\nlofty strain. Enmity grew into friendship before liis noble\\nbearing, and humanity itself attended him with all human\\nsympathy. And over all, God made soft his dying pillow.", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "DEATH.\\nTlio particular form of his mortal malady was rheiimatisni of\\ntke heart, originating in the exposure of his campaigns, and\\naggravated by the circumstances of his many trying situations.\\nHe traveled South in the spring of 1870, and in the summer\\nresorted to the Hot springs of Virginia and when September\\ncame, he was here in better health and spirits, at his accustomed\\nwork. On the 2Sth of September, he conducted, as usual, his\\ncorrespondence, and performed the incidental tasks of his otHce,\\nand after dinner he attended a meeting of the Yestry of Grace\\nEpiscopal Church, of which body he was a member. A ques-\\ntion as to the minister s salary coming before the Board, and\\nthere being a deficiency in the amount necessary. General Lee\\nsaid I will give that sum. A sense of M eariness came over\\nhim before the meeting ended, and at its close he retired with\\nwan, flashed face. Retui uing home, he found the family cir-\\ncle gathered for tea, and took his place at the board, standing\\nto say grace. The lips failed to voice the blessings prompted\\nby the heart, and without a word he took his seat with an\\nexpression of sublime resignation on his face for well he\\nknew that the Master s call had come, and he was ready to\\nanswer.\\nHe was borne to his chamber, and skilled physicians and lov-\\ning hands did all that man could do. For nearly a fortnight\\nTwixt night and morn upon the horizon s verge,\\nBetween two worlds life hovered like a star.\\nAnd thus on the morning of October 12th, the star of the mor-\\ntal sank into the sunrise of immortality, and Robert Lee passed\\nhence to where beyond these voices there is peace.\\nTell A. P. Hill to prepare for action, were amongst the\\nlast words of Stonewall Jackson. Tell Hill he mnst come\\nup, were the last words of Lee. Their brave Lieutenant, who\\nrests under the green turf of Hollywood, seems to have been\\nlatest in the minds of his great commanders, while their spirits\\nyet in martial fancy, roamed again the fields of conflict, and\\nere they passed to where the soldier dreams of battle-fields no\\nmore.", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "75\\nTHE LESSON5 OF HIS LIFE.\\nAnd did lie live in vain, this brave and gentle Lee? And\\nhave his works perished with him I wonld blush to ask the\\nquestion save to give the answer.\\nA leader of armies he closed his career in complete disaster.\\nBut the military scientist studies his campaigns, and finds in\\nthem designs as bold and brilliant and actions as intense and\\nenergetic as ever illustrated the art of war. The gallant cap-\\ntain beholds in his bearing, courage as rare as ever forced a\\ndesperate field, or restored a lost one. The private soldier\\nlooks np at an image as benignant and commanding as ever\\nthrilled the heart with highest impulse of devotion.\\nThe men who wrested victory from his little band, stood\\nwonder-stricken and abashed when they saw how few were\\nthose who dared oppose them, and generous admiration burst\\ninto spontaneous tribute to the splendid leader who bore defeat\\nwith the cpiiet resignation of a hero. The men who fought\\nucder him never revered Or loved him more than on the day\\nhe sheathed his sword. Had he but said tlie word, they would\\nhave died for honor. It was because he said the word that\\nthey resolved to live for duty.\\nPlato congratulated himself, first, that he was born a man\\nsecond, that he had the hajDpiness of being a Greek and,\\nthird, that he was the contemporarj^ of Sophocles. And in\\nthis vast throng to-day, and here and there the wide world\\nover, is many an one who wore the grey, who rejoices that he\\nwas born a man to do a man s part for his suffering country\\nthat he had the glory of being a Confederate and who feels a\\njust, proud and glowing consciousness in his bosom when he\\nsays unto himself I was a follower of Robert Lee. I was a\\nsoldier in the army of Northern Virginia.\\nDID HE WIELD PATKONAGE AXD POWER\\nNo, he could not have appointed a friend to the smallest\\noffice. He could bestow no emolument upon any of his fol-\\nlowers. But an intimation of his wish amongst his own peo-", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "V9\\npie carried an influence which thecornmandof the autocrat can\\nnever possess, and his approval of conduct or character was\\ndeemed an honor, and was an honor, which outvied the stars\\nand crosses and titles conferred bj kings.\\nDID HE GAIN WEALTH.\\nNo. He neither sought nor despised it. It thrust itself\\nupon him, but he put it away from him. He refused its com-\\npanionship because its people could not have its company. He\\ngave what he had to a weak cause, and to those whose necessi-\\nties were greater than his own. And home itself he sacrificed\\non the altar of his country. But he refuted the shallow world-\\nling s maxim that every man has his price, and proved that\\ntrue manhood has none, however great.\\nThe plunderer of India defended himself by exclaiming that\\nwhen he considered his opportunities, he was astonished at his\\nown moderation. Mark Antony appeased the anger of the\\nRoman populace against the fallen tyrant by Cfcsar s will,\\nwherein he left them his rich and fair possessions to them\\nand their heirs forever. The Captive of St. Helena, aggran-\\ndized with the tears and blood of Europe, drew his ov. n lono-\\nwill, dispensing millions to his favorites. Lee had opportuni-\\nties as great as any conqueror and took nothing not even that\\nAvhich others pushed upon him.\\nBut he has left a great, imperishable legacy to us and our\\nheirs forever. The heart of man is his perpetual kingdom.\\nThere he reigns transcendent, and we exclaim Oh, king,\\nlive forever.\\nDID HE POSSESS KAXK I\\nNot so. Far from it. He was not even a citizen. The\\ncountry which gave the right of suffrage to the alien ere he\\ncould speak its language, and to the African freedman ere he\\ncould read or understand its laws, denied to him the privilege\\nof a ballot. He had asked amnesty. He had been refused.\\nHe had not been tried, but he had been convicted. He for-\\ngave, but he was un forgiven. He died a paroled prisoner of\\nV", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "80\\nwar, in the calm of peace, five years after war had ended died\\nthe foremost and noblest man in a Republic wliich proclaims\\nitself the land of the free and the home of the brave, him-\\nself and his Commander-in-Chief constituting the most conspicu-\\nous of its political slaves. But as the oak, stripped of the foli-\\nage by the winter blast, then, and then only, stands forth in\\nsolemn and mighty majesty against the wintry sky, so Robert\\nLee, stripped of every rank that man could give him, towered\\nabove the earth and those around him, in the pure sublimity\\nand strength of that character which we can only fitly contem-\\nplate wlien we lift our eyes from earth and see it dimmed\\nairainst the Heavens\\nDID UK SAVK niS CoUNTKY FKOM CONQUEST\\nNo. He saw his every foreboding of evil verified. He\\ncame to share the miseries of his people. He shared them,\\ndrinking every drop of Sorrow s cup. His cause was lost, and\\nthe land for which he fought lives not amongst the nations.\\nBut the voice of Jlistory echoes the poet s song\\nAh 1 realoi of tombs! but let it bear\\nThis blazon to the hist of times\\nNo nation rose so white and fair,\\nOr fell so pure from crimes.\\nAnd he, its type, lived and died, teaching life s greatest les-\\nsons, to suffer and be strong, and that misfortune nobly\\nborne is good fortune.\\nThere is a rare exotic that blooms but once in a century, and\\nthen it fills the light with beauty and the air with fragrance.\\nIn each of the two centuries of Virginia s Statehood, there has\\nsprung from the loins of her heroic race, a son whose name and\\ndeeds will bloom throughout the ages. Each fought for Lib-\\nerty and Independence each against a people of his own race\\neach against the forms of established power. George Wash-\\nington won against a kingdom whose seat was three thousand\\nmiles away, whose soldiers had to sail in ships across the deep,\\nand he found in the boundless areas of his own land its strong-", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "81\\nest fortilications. Autrust, beyond the reach of detraction, is\\nthe fflorv of his name. Kobcrt Edward Lee made fiercer and\\nbloodier fight against greater odds, and at greater sacrifice, and\\nlost against the greatest nation of modern history, armed with\\nsteam and electricity, and all the appliances of modern science;\\na nation which mustered its hosts at the very threshold of his\\nloor. l at his life teaches the grandest lesson how manhood\\ncan rise transcendent over Adversity, and is in itself alone,\\nunder God, pre-eminent the grander lesson, because as sorrow\\nand misfortune are sooner or later the common lot even that\\nof him who is to-day the conqueror he who bears them best is\\nmade of sterner stuff, and is the most useful and universal, as\\nhe is the greatest and noblest exemplar.\\nAnd now he has vanished from us forever. And is this all\\nthat is left of him this handful of dust beneath the marble\\nstone No, the Ages answer as they rise from the gulfs of\\nTime, where lay the wrecks of kingdoms and estates, holding\\nup in their hands as their only trophies, the names of those\\nwho have wrought for man in the love and fear of God, and in\\nlove unfearing for their fellow-men.\\nNo the present answers, bendnig by his tomb.\\nNo the future answers, as the breath ot the morning fans\\nits radiant brow, and its soul drinks in sweet inspirations fi oni\\nthe lovely life of Lee.\\nNo, methinks the very heavens echo, as melt into their\\ndepths the words of reverent love that voice the hearts of rnen\\nto the tingling stars.\\nCONCLUSION.\\nCome we then to-day in loyal love to sanctify our memories,\\nto purify our hopes, to make strong all good intent by commu-\\nnion with the spirit of him, who, being dead, yet speaketh.\\nCome, child, in th}^ spotless innocence come, wonian, in thy\\npurity come, youth, in thy prime come, manhood, in thy\\nstrength come, age, in thy ripe wisdom come citizen, come\\nsoldier, let us strew the roses and lilies of June around his", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "S2\\ntoiiil), for lie, like them, exlialed in his life Nature s benefi-\\ncence, and the i\u00c2\u00bb;rave has consecrated that life, and i^iven it to\\nus all let ns crown his tomb with the oak, the emblem of his\\nstrength, and with the laurel, the emblem of his glory, and let\\nthese guns, whose voices he knew of old, awake the echoes of\\nthe mountains that Nature herself may join in his solemn\\nrequiem.\\nCome, f( r here he rests, and\\nOn this green bank, l)y this fair slrcani.\\nWe set to-tlay a native stone,\\nTlial inoMiory may liis deeds redeem,\\n\\\\Vhen, like onr sires, our sons are ;une.\\nCome, for here the genius of loftiest i oesy ii\\\\ the artist s\\ndream, and through the scidptor s touch, has restored his form\\nand features a Valentine has lifted the marble veil and dis-\\nclosed him to ns as we would love to look upon him lying,\\nthe flower of ktdghthood, in Joyous (iard. His Sivord\\nbeside him is sheathed forever. But honor s seal is on his\\nbrow, and valor s star is on his breast, and the peace that pass-\\neth all understanding descends ujion him. Here, not in the\\nhour of his grandest triumph of earth, as when mid the battle\\nroar, shouting battalions followed his trenchant sword, and\\nbleeding veterans forgot their wounds to lea[) between him and\\nhis enemies but here in victory, supreme over earth itself,\\nand over death, its conqueror, he rests, his warfare done.\\nAnd as we seem to gaze once more on him we loved ami\\nhailed as chief, in his sweet, dreamless sleep, the tranquil face is\\nclothed with heaven s light, and the mute lips seem elo(]uent\\nwith the message that in life he spoke:\\nTliere is a true glory and a true honor tltcgionj of duty\\ndone^ the honor of the integrity of principle.^", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "83\\nAfter the conclusion of Major Daniel s oration, Father Ryan,\\nat the rccjiiest of (Jen. Early, recited his celebrated poem\\nTtlK SWORD OF LKE.\\nForth from its scabbard, pure and bright.\\nFlashed the sword of Lee\\nF ar in the front of the deadly fight,\\nHigh o er the brave in the cause of right.\\nIts stainless sheen, like a beacon-light,\\nLed us to victory.\\nOut of its scabbard, where full long,\\nIt slumbered peacefully\\nRoused from its rest by the battle- song,\\nHhielding the feeble, smiting the strong,\\n(Juarding the right, and avenging the wrong-\\nGleamed the sword of Lee I\\nForth from its scabbard, high in air,\\nBeneath Virginia s sky\\nAnd they who saw it gleaming there,\\nAnd knew who bore it, knelt to swear\\nTiiat where that sword led they would dart\\nTo follow and to die.\\nOut of it\u00c2\u00ab scabbard I Never hand\\nWaved sword from stain as free,\\nNor purer sword led braver band,\\nNor braver bled for a brighter land,\\nNor brighter land had a cause as grand,\\nNor cau.se, a chief like Lee\\nI ^orth from its scabbard how we prayed\\nThat sword might victor be\\nAnd when our triumph was delayed,\\nAnd many a heart grew sore afraid,\\nWe still hoped on, while gleamed the blade\\nOf noble lioberl Lee\\nForth from its .scabbard I all in vain I\\nForth flashed the sword of Lee\\nTis shrouded now in its sheath again,\\nIt sleeps the sleep of our noble slain,\\nDefeated, yet without a stain,\\nProudly and peacefully.", "height": "3309", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "Nuv 9 lauu", "height": "3304", "width": "2056", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesconnec00leem_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "CEREMONIES\\nCONNECTED WITH\\nTHE INAUGURATION OP THE MAUSOLEUM AND THE UNVEILING\\nOF THE RECUMBENT FIGURE\\naENERAL ROBEET EDWARD LEE,\\nWASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY,\\nLexington, Va., June 28, 1883.\\nORATION OF JOHN W. DANIEL, LL D. i;\\nHISTORICAL SKETCH\\nLee Memorial Association.\\nLYNCHBURG, VA.\\nJ. P. 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