The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-10-20
THURSDAY, oeToBER 10, 1sso.
LErrER rRom aExaSsTov.
Mistakes I'm tiae Name nnd Date ef
BiT'n OF General Lee Objects ssssa
ORGANISATION OF the Fee Memorial
ASsccfatfon--The TOnh OF Zee. &c.
Especial Correspondence % the Dispateh.1
LEXINGTON. N7a{g4fscr II 1sT0

LEXINGTON, VA, Get. II, 1870,
The enterprise and iiberalsty of the DIS.
patch enabled your correspondent to SEM,
ny special couriels and kilograms such full
particpisss CONCERNING the death and ftlne-
raj cbsequies of General Lee that but little
remains TO be added.
Moss OF the papers have made mistakes
IN the name of our fallen hero-writing it
Robert ssosaua6 Lee. His name was Robert
-ad'easd Lee, after his grandfather Edward
Sarier. And there seems also to be some
discrepancy as to the date Of his birth. The
18th OF January, 1907, is the real date, and
* SO engraved on the simple marble slab
which covers his last resting place.
The "Lee Memorial association" to
which your correspondent briefly referred,
has been fully organized. A charter will be
mt once obtained from the Legislature, and
Vigorous efforts made to carry out the ob-
]ectS of the association. which are TO erect
Il suitable monument to the memory of our
great leader, and observe in some fitting
manner the anniversary OF his death.
The soldiers meeting here appointed the
following Executive Committee. who were
empowered with full authority to elect
officers Of the association and perfect the
organization: Gen. ". n. Pendleton, Col.
VIM. Preston Joha>ton, Capt. J. J. White,
Col. j. W. MaSSie, Col. VIM. Mclaughlin.
Capt. {. a. Davidson, Col. j. Il. Edmond
son, Capt. A. Graham, Capt. j. C. Bonde,
Maj. }. 5. Dorinan, and Col. Am. Allan,
Lexington Col. +. W. M. holiday, Win
chester; Col. John S. Mosby, Tarrenton /;
Gen. William Terry, Wytheville Gen. Jno.
Echals, Staunton Col. Thomas Stanhope
Fiournoy, Halifax; Major Robert Stiles,
Richmond; Gen. Bradley T. Johnston.
Richmond; Col. c. S. Venable, University
Of Virginia.
The design is to have all the States IN the
late Confederacy represented on the list OF
officers 10 form coordinate associations and
10 speedily push forward the good work.
The plans OF the committee have not, of
course, been yet perfected, and it is in
tended 10 consult fully the wishes OF the
survivors OF the grand old army which our
rhicitan led but it is suggested rs appro-
PIRATE that we should have an equestrian
statue on the college grounds, 4 bust in the
vcStihule OF the chapel which he built, and
i rccumbent statue on his tomb. 1t is SIM
yularly fortunate that the admirable bust
81 Gen. Lee which Mr.. Valentine secured
last summer will give the needed model
Your correspondent has had the privi-
iege OF gazing on the tomb Of General Lee
since ii has been capped with its simple
slab Of pure white marble, and he has been
struck with the exceeding good taste in
which everything (under the management
u Col. McCullough) has been arranged.
The books are al to be removed and the
room appropriately fitted up rs the home
VI the mighty dead.
Ne were also permitted to go into his
office and gaze upon the chair in which he
WAS accustomed to sit, the table at which
he wrote, and other mementoes Of his busy,
noble life. Indeed, everything about the
College reminds lis of him and opens afresh
uHT wounds.
Drs. Madison and Barton, who watched
:" constantly At the bedside Of the great
chcttain and ministered so skillfully in
his case. pronounce the statement Of
your correspondent concerning it strict
L. accurate except i'll Il single par
flrr did not give any medicines which
80 contributed" 10 the stupor, or rather
deep sleep i'll which he lay for the
most part OF his sickness; but, on the con-
trary, carefully avoided medicines of that
haractcr, and gave those Of IN opposite
tendency. The public. and especially tie
medical fraternity, will he glad to learn that
the attending physicians are preparing for
the Richmond Louisville Medical Journal
detailed account Of the causes, stages,
and treatment OF General Lees sickness.
1t may he mentioned, as indicating the
universal grief Of this community, that the
rolorcd barbcr-ShopS and the colored
churches Were all drarcd in mourning, and
that the he'll Of the coiored Methodist
Church WAS tollcd in union with those OF
the white churches.
The Faculty have appointed 4 commit
Gee who are now bu-ily 1t work pre-
?aiin@ material for publishing III IN early
day = memorial volume OF General Lee. 1t
+ designed that this shall contain, be-
sides an accurate Biographical sketch-not
m extended memolr, for That will no doubt
be written underth direction otthe family
All Of the resolutions, the principle news
paper notices, DC, concerning the death OF
9icueral Lee. 1t will be Il volume Of deep
interest, and will lie very extensively clrcu-
lated. The Board OF Trustees had Il meet
IN on Saturday, in which they passed
suitable resolutions, and took steps TO con-
firm the action of the Faculty in reference
81 Incorporating the name Of Lee i'll fitting
conIncturc with that Of Washington III the
name Of the college, and also i'll reference
10 SITTING apart tue 10Th Of January rs an
anniversary in the college.
nn Yesterday fitting allusion was made to
the death OF General Lee, and the ministers
sought TO improve the occasion 10 the good
OF Ill, and especially of the young men.
LEXINGTON.
Cur correspondent sent us a pretty full
report OF a sermon delivered in Lexington
on the death OF Gen. Lee, for which we can
not POSSIBLY find room.