Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-11-05

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,alm No. DAY a. ihe death N su"lh.
Or great and good man Nor Nll
the grief for this ,alamlty ~ $50
,ional IN IL nature for here 10 the
,,nrih wherever justice has ossum'
81 ihe Ilaeo Il prsiud'ce, tie name
of Ger,r1i l.re 10 the synonym Tor
every virtue vhieh mortal man
i.,.s,,s,s. A. miiva,cd by onr DIS
rn,rl,cs elsewhere, General Robert
Edmnnd Lee died II Lexington,
Virginia Yesterday morrihg, at the
rim, anI honor,d age OF slNly'lhrce,
This event was not altogether uheN'
iss,,ed A little less than two weeks
rgn the announcement WAS made
that General Lcc had suffered a par
uiyiic stroke and that his lite Was
dcspairrd a. hut his physicians
announced that paralysis was not
his disease Tie rallied again lie
shadow which the intelligence OF
his misfortune created soon poh'el
AWAY, and the event was well n'sh
tsrp,,t,n, The labor, the nnN'c'N'
the exposure aud tho service "'
wears had broken, however, u con
s,l,utlon of iron and u will almost
irresistible, aud the veteran WHO
had faced death So Uneu SURRENDERED
Yesterday morning and passed nom
lie scenes IT life. His disease was
nrnnouncch congestion OF The BRAN,
When one 50 noted and so well
Ln6wn In all lhc country Is stricken
down, there Is u call for more than
A passing notice, General Leo was
Lnrn In the State OF Virginia In
1903 and was lineal descendant "i
the Grand old family of the Lees
of Virginia. whose ancestry da'e
tn the birth of the State, and whose
deeds in the Revolution have mGue
,hrm famous in iis history lie
was tho son of Henry Lee, The
friend of Washington. In ls"2 he
was appointed u cadet in tho MN,
tary academy at West Point and
in is9o was received into the Uni
tod States army as Second Lieuien'
ant. His promotion carried him to
n Cap,uincv in 1898, which position
he held until tho breaking ont Of
the war in Mcxic,, in 1916, which
opcned n fac field for renown to The
lnunr aud ambitions soldier. ii"
went TO Mexico us Chief Engineer
of the army under Scott. AtCGrro
G.rao hi, bravery won him n Ma.
inr's leaf, and gallant conduct ~
Contrcras and Chcrubusco made
him II Lieutenant Colonel h,S
career in Mexico was one OF lri,
umph, and NJ Drawer man marched
with that little army from Vera
Cruz to the Garita San Cosmo OF
tho city of the Montczumas, lie
distinguished himselfnt ChcpuItcpec
and his scryic IS received recognition
in the shape Of Colonc s commits
sion. Returning from Mexico, ne
held the position of member OF inc
Board of Amy Engineers until
1852, when he was appointed to the
CT the Military
cadcmy at West Point. 1T was
here that the rebellion fodnd him.
For him there was no choice. Be
lie, ing in the sovereignty of his
ofhis State, devoted to her interests,
and maintaining that to the State
the citizen owed his first allegiance,
he rendered his resignation in March
1881. and laid his sword at the feet
of Virginia, then arming for the
struggle with the General Govern
mcnt. Thus u descendant of the
family which had shed its blood in
building up the Republic OF the
Western World was one OF the first
to rally to the defence of sovc
reiguty which sought to annul con
tract which it conceived to have
been violated. Virginia joytnlly
welcomed her son, and appointed
him to the command otshcr armies.
In the summer Of 1861 he was sent
into the mountainous district to de-
fend the State against the invasion
of the army which moved upon the
National Road through West Vir-
ginia. Owing to insufficient force
he was unable to accomplish much.
Returning to Richmond, he busted
organizing and equip. |
ping the armies Of the Conlederacy'
In the spring of 1862, Mcclellan ad-
vanccd upon the Chickahominy, !
and the FIRST struggle for Richmond ,
took place. AT the battle of Seven
Pines, General Joe E. Johnston re-
ceived u wound, and the command
of the army devolved upon General
Lee. Mcclellan had been his class
m ate and friend, and together they
had gone as bosom companions TO
that wonderful warfare in
the Crimca, and learn military
science at the siege of Scbastopol.-
Those "Seven days of Richmond"
will never be forgotten, nor need it
to be told how Lee routed the army
of Mcclellan, and drove it back
and bleeding upon the
James, thereby saving the Capital.
In August of the same year Lee,
still at the head Of the army, drove
Pope back upon Washington. In
the winter of 1862 he defeated Burn
side at Fredericksburg, and Hooker
ut Charlottesville in May, Co.
Twice he endeavored TO carry the
war across the Potomac. Once in
the summer of '62, when he Invaded
Maryland and fought the disastrous
battle of Antictam, and once in the
summer of 'G3 when he penetrated
20 Pennsylvania and suffered a
rushing defeat at Gettysburg.
In May, 1864, came those terri
Die battles of the Wilderness, where
Grant found a holocaust for his
rant armies, aud the country learn
ID what was meant by setting nu-
nercial strength against general
hip. With his shattered army,
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