The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-06-08
NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY MORNING JUNE g. 1873

? That Greene failed ON the whole in hi
encounter, is well-known. He, how
ever, though defeated, never ceased {
hold his own stoutly against Cornwalli
FOR the time, and afterwards recovered To
Caroiinas fully for Congress and his sue
eessea were due In great part to the tai
mander. General Henry Lee had q WORTHY
opponent in Colonel Tarleton, o cavalry
0mcer OF NO mean merit In light warfare
But the republican cavalier established hi
superiority very fully in the series Of skir
mishes that ensned. And although, in his
own Memoir Of the War, he has the mod-
| esty to attribute his own successes ever
TarletOn to his superiority in horseflosh.
| readers OF this Interesting work May dis
cern for themselyes that his own skill and
yuagmens were she prime causes Of the ad-
vantage, and will be disposed to agree to
the full with General Greene, who wrote
In bis personal thanks, "No man, In. the
progress Of the campaign, had equal merit
with yourself )" AN expression of strong
meaning coming from plain, blunt colder
fally confrnsed by Washink lions own words
Of "love and tha1kss" in Q letter of later
date, written long enough after to show
now strong in that great mans mind was
the memory Of the services Of "Lighs horse
Asrry," as ME contemporaries fsmiliasly
=
Retiring hom command, when tho clesa
OF the war turned the swords Of revolution-
airy generals into -ploughehares, Henry Leo
married his second cousin, Matilda Lee.
heiress OF the old family estate ofStrstsord, /
Of the head Of the family, gave himself m
to local political life. Alternately Govern.
or Of his native State Of Virginia. and her
In Congress, 6e vet found
leisure to write the really thonghtful and |
accurate account Of his Southern cam !
paigns already referred to, as well 80 to
indulge largely in the open handed hos |
pitality which was the tradition of the |
family, and which in his case was carried |
30 far as to impoverish his estate. BY his |
cousin be had no family: bot q eScoDd
marriage gave him three sons, the second I
Of whom, Robert Edward, became the re-
noWned general, whose fame has almost
;ansed that of his fathers reputation for
warlike prowess to be forgotten. He was
oGsn on January 10, 1907, In the same room
where Richard Henry Lee, his fathers
whose charge was entrusted the moving Of
he Declaration Of Independence, and one I
IT the leading members Of the ORIGINAL
Congress which voted it. |,
'Robert was always good" wrste his
ather come ten years later 20 q relative, In :
description Of bis young family: The !
DOR life, taught to ride almost from biz ,
infancy, and enjoying the constant good
ealth which serene conscience and tenn.
crate habits preserved to him until the
lose Of o long life. For several years of /
rs later boyhood, the family lived 10 the /
scilities for education not attainable In the Z
ountry, and here after Gene raj Henry Lees 4
cath his widow remained for the came 2
eason. Before arriving at manhood, c
.o6ert Lee had avowed his earnest 6
eslre TO follow the military profess q
ION in which bis father had been 90 dis {
Dguished. The services Of the latter were v
DO conspicuous to make 10 difficult to q
rocure an appointment to West Point for "
is son J; and in 1925 he entered the Militia L
Academy for that long and complete il
nited States TO fit the future officer, not v
) with us for one, but for every branch Of a
Re service. Young Lee was as Femarka-
lie here as through the rest of his career Il
,r the blameless simplicity Of his life and ii
10 devotion to the duties of the hour. No v
1try was recorded agafpst him Ia the de- .,
'ulters' book during his four years resi- Il
ence, and when his cIaas graduated in Il
32e, he took the second place, and Wna LIZ
ppointed to the TOpogrnphical Engineers, i q
small corps Esgarded ae the etlts of = Il
reat personal beauty, and sweetness Of L
amer were noted then and in the young a
eutenan&'s carriage and appeSrance e
ere the pledge Of the noble presence and .
Inn bearing which won the instant conf d
ence Of the high-spirited but wilful troops il
the Confederacys almost from the frat II
ght of their new commander thirty years Il
ter. Three years after being com mis- T,
.oned, he became the fortunate suitor OF Il
larry Gusts, the daughter and heiress Of v
gorge Custis, WashingtOn's adopted SOP. ii
y his marriage with her he came into pos ii
scion Of the hereditary estates of the y
under Of American liberty, and vas r.
70 nearest representative before the world IL
that great mans family. This fact, as p;
ell a. the traditions Of his own family, tt