The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-06-08
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ssould DO distinctly borne Ia miod hv
, . muse VINO would understand foliy HI
SI.IiI W.p position at the outbreak Of tHs
Seventeen years of peace service n....s
by. and Captain Lee OF the EosinssInsa 49, -
Ssnere0 found NO special Opportunity Of
aistinction. In 1916, however. che Isx;.
e san mss oogan, and bic character ana at
nsm to be seleoted 40 Chief Ensinesr A. ,, ~
army under General Scott, In which CO. =
~ ~ no served through tho frat csmnescn
s shss any American Officer Of hia sfandiS9
sntsr IN 10: ~ it Is not our purpose here q
dimcuities and suecesses. Su6ias IN Ia 80
shae from Fret TO last, Lee fuliy iustsSsX
sne ehoicS which had been made az him ~
me post, and was mentioned ia ai1aose
every important report.
reeennoissances 90 daring 40 laborioas. and
or or me utmost yelue everyvhera. was the
spstches. Three tines specially brevesS6
s ,0E his sssSiSss. he retained e Die eva
knS wledged as one Of tho moot psouaisina
OK her omsers, and poseeasing sks cona-
dence Of his chief beyend any other Of ~.
many distinguished men who had sSrSsG
w VITO MIN T. 4 isw more years Of peses en-
and then game change In his career. m
at Of sudden Mheralsty, the Cooereaa IN
1880 voted two reginenss Of cavalry 10 Sc
added 70 the germanet estabiishment OF
the army. Energetie officers Of all
the new corps, which were desigIsd for
active frontier duty; and Lee bein9
amoDgst the number applying for franssSf.
beesme Lleutenant. Colonel OF the Seooni.
Cavalry, In which he found amongst hi
loat the Confederates their advantage at
Shiloh, and, 1t has been declared, ssvsd
Grants army from ruin; Thomas and
Stonenan, 10 after days leading generals
Sn the Northern side; with Hardee, Van
equally well known on that of tho South.
The regiment was promptly ordered 60
Texas, where Lee spent the next Ave :
FEARS.
The next event in Lees life brought him
in collision with the storay
dement's already brewing to burst later In
tvn war. He CHANGED TO be on leave af
Washington in the autumn Of 1889, bein9
hen on visit to his family ct ArlingtoS,
is seat close y when he was sent for
aog Of desperadoeo, no learnt, under one
ohm Brown, had attacked and taken che
Military depot ut Harper's Ferry, and de-
Jared their intention Of raisipG q serviIo
,ar against the siaveovners Of Virginia.
% proceed there with the party Of msrine0
laced at his disposaI, attack the riot
re In the building they bad fortified, snd
i've them ever, when presently captured,
0 the civil authorities Of Virginis, Wa0 g
uty exeo9ted with such completeness and
romPtitude 90 the service called for. Bat.
'r.aeeing and sagaeiOus % Lee was, he
robably, % little as any man IL the EteteS,
Ould foresee that the email cloud thus
asily dispersed was baE the foreEunner OF
Tempest Of oiyii war Of more terrible en-
itnesOed. He was again In Texas, eona-
anding his department., when tho gtOTn
as gathering rapidly after the election Of
lincoln In 1850; end early in the follow
g spring he was recalled TO head. quarters
= General Scott, under whose commanA
ere the modest forces which were still the
my ftbe now threatened Union.
Meme minds were on ell Sides growing
vered as the coming struggle feveaIed is
eVitaole ehaPe more eertainIy. To none
ms Of Virginia, q State in which the SEN
ment OK pride in the growing greatness Of -a
% Union balanced her natural iuclinstiOn
side with her mere forward aBd paeskOa- p
. sisters Of the South. Bordering 600 on ~
n States behind it, interest, IS we'll "a
yal TepugnAnce to break mp che republic
nited to arrest her tendency to follow tho
rample OF South Carolina which had
ceded in December. But when Lincoln
sued his decisive proclamation, pr0Roune-
g secesSi0n to be open rebelliop, and call
g on each State which had not departed
ON the Union to seud its contingent TO
press the contemplated crime, and absO-
ito choice could no longer be deferred, -
irginis must Bght either with or against
o South. She chose the former alteFna-
70, as that which, iii the more Immediate
dangerous was the more certain TO car
tue sympathies Of her people. On the
th April her ordinance Of Secession was
ssed, and her lot for the future east ny
lie measure with the new COnfedsracy.