The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-11-10
Lee Memorial Association.
To the Surviving Officers and Soldiers Of the Con-
federate Army.

Lie ldSG Sdu IlISS are OfSE, duQ Oil Gudt Wo-'
mortal of our beloved and honored chieftain,
General Robert Edward Lee, has been commit
ted to the grave. 1t is now only left us to dis
charge the duty, so sacred to surviving affection,
of building and decorating his tomb. Admira-
tion of his great qualities and fame may prompt
others to raise the lofty column and imposing
statue but love for his person, reverence for
his virtues, and regard for his memory, dictate
to his comrades-in-arms, as their first care, to
properly enshrine his remains.
After General Lee assumed the Presidency OF
Washington College, his earliest work was the
erection of chapel on the College grounds.
Beneath that chaste and massive structure, in
the room designed for library, and adjoining
the Office filled with mementoss of his last un-
selfish, earnest labors, his ashes now repose.
And there, in the temple reared by himself, at
the home of his adoption, will be his fitting,
and we believe, his enduring resting place. We
hold this conviction because his remains now
rest in the spot chosen by those who alone had
a right to decide, because this spot would most
likely have been approved by the illustrious
dead himself had his self-forgetting mind ever
dwelt for moment on such aquestion; because
it holds his memory aloof from the possible
contaminations of party politics; because it
accords with the custom observed by the great
fathers and servants of the State, all of whom
preferred unostentatious resting-places; and
because his tomb here will be really more use
full in connection with the last work of his e1-
emplary life in perpetuating the good influence
of the College of Washington and Lee through
out the South We therefore invite his brethren
and followers in the momentous struggle, which
has made his name and their own immortal, to
unite in constructing here mausoleum worthy
~ co-o~oo,+ r,o,, of II bic firna I'm tho dav
succeeding the death of General Lee, the Con-
federate soldiers who escorted the body from his
residence to the chapel met and resolved at
once to form Memorial Association; and at
an adjourned meeting on the 10Th of October,
when the funeral obsequies were concluded,
they adopted plan of organization. An Ex-
ecutiye Committee, with President and Vice
Presidents for the Southern States, have been
appointed, and the Association will soon be
regularly incorporated. In order that the
poorest in our ranks may be enabled to join
upon an equal footing with all others in the
pious work in view, it has been determined that
any Confederate soldier may become member
of the Association upon the payment of one
dollar, and that the names of all the members
shall be enrolled in suitable books to be pre-
served in the Memorial Chapel. 1t is not pro-
posed to limit subscriptions to the small sum
already named, nor to confne them to soldiers
nor do our wishes and purposes stop with the
mausoleum. Contributions will be gladly re-
ceiyed from friends everywhere and of all
classes, who will, under proper regulations, be
inscribed as honorary members; and when
sufficient fund shall have been secured, it is
contemplated to erect special monument In
connection with the tomb.
Fellow-citizens, we invoke you by the COM
mon memories of the past to be prompt and
earnest in the noble undertaking to which you
are now invited. In the quiet church-yard of
Lexington Lieutenant General "StonewalP'
Jackson lies inferred; and now his great COM
mander sleeps near at hand. What holier spot
can there be to US than the common home OF
these grand representative men? What more
fitting monument for the great army itself OF
which Lee was the head, the pride and glory,
than one raised here by its survivors, perpetua-
ting alike the memory of his and their own
great deeds, the enduring witness at once of
their devotion and of his heroic qualities as
man, his virtues as patriot, and his graces as
q Christian the remembrance of which will
indeed outlive the marble and bronze which
human art NAV fashion in his honor.
w. II. PENDLETON,
Late Chief Artillery A. N. Va,
Chairman of Executive Com.
The following officers have been selected and
requested to act as President and Vice Presi-
dents of this Associations!
Gen. ]. c. Breckinridge, late G. S. Secretary
of War, President.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Vice President, at
large.
Presidents from Virginia.
Gen. G. T. Beauregard, Vice President from
Gen. D. H. Hill, Vice President from North
Carolina
Gen. Wade Hampton, Vice President from
GEN. John B. Gordon, Vice President from
Georgia. =,
Gen. s. D. Lee, Vice President from Miss
issippi.
Gen. ]. B. Hood, Vice President from Texas
Gen. Trimble, Vice President from Maryland
Gen. J. S. Marmaduke, Vice President from
Missouri. ,,.
Gen. VIM. Preston, Vice President from KY.
Gen. Tappan, Vice President from Arkansas
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