The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-10-31
ILLUSTRATIVE POINTS OF GEN.
LEE.

The ideal soldier of history wa
Robert Edward Lee, of Virginia birth.
His greatness has been recognized
fully in the South since the Seven
Days Battles. Those who have read
Gen. Longs excellent life Of the
great Confederate commander knows
that Gen. Winfield Scott pronounced
him the greatest success in the Mexi-
can War, although but Captain in
rank. Col. Chesney, while living was
regarded as the highest Enelish author
ity in war matters, and he pronounced
him one of the three greatest soldiers
Of the English speaking race-Marl-
borough, Wellington, Lee. He did
not perhaps give these names in the
order of merit, but of age-the order
of succession. Viscount Wolseley:
another we'll known British authority,
and now Commander in Chief of the
British army, holds Gen. Lee to have
been the greatest soldier of the Amer
ican war and greater soldier than
Wellington. Mr.. Theodore Roose-
velt, Northern scholar and author,
in his recent life of Thomas Hart
Benton, "a native of North Carolina
pronounces Gen. Lee the greatest SOL
dier of the English speaking race.
That is candid and magnanimous and
probably not excessive.
But it is the noble, the lovable, the
gentle, the pure, the kindly, the mag
unanimous qualities Of the illustrious
Southron that SO engages and at ract.
A lady who was at the Warm
Springs in Virginia, soon after the
war, gives the following illustrative an
ecdote. Gen. Lee was there, whom
she knew we'll. There was Northern
General and family there, and they
were having very dull time Of it. As
given in the New York Tribune, this
followed:
"The lady narrator, noticing this
mentioned it in the next conversation
|
surprise, the latter said: 1 am GLAD
YOU told me of it. shall see to it al
once that they find it more pleasant
With that courteous dignity which wat
essentially his he kept his promise. The
Northern General and his daughter
were charmed by the attention he be
slowed upon them. As Gen. Lee had Sc
the fashion, the young ladies were sooI
among the most popular at the hotel
and before the season closed the tw'
old soldiers were warm friends"
When Gen. Lee was invading Penn
sylvania, Col. Mcclure, we think
was, told of what he saw. One day h
beheld Confederate officer dismou
ing and putting up rails that had beer
thrown down that encircled a fin
wheat field. Presently other officer
rode up and seeing what the soldie
was doing dismounted and aided
That officer was General Lee, and hi
assistants were members OF his stat
Contrast that with Sherman's marc
through Georgia and the Carolinas.
When Gen. Lees father, Gen
Harry Lee Light Horse Harry Of til
War Of independence was in the We:
. Indies, whittier he had gone in tn
hope of recovering from injuries re
> ceived in Baltimore at the hands OF
> mob, he wrote many letters to h
gentle, lovable wife, the mother whor
: Robert so loved and afterwards serve
as the tenderest and most devoted {
=, sons. In one of these letters Gen. Le'
! the father, was giving directions as
the management of the boys. Whe
t he came to the great Lee, then DO
] of some twelve, the father wrote b'
: this-"As for Robert, he was alwa.
t Rood" The great poet Wordsworth
wrote "The child is father Of the man
=. Before him John Dryden, ano,h
great English poet, had wrltten-"Mf
; are but children of larger growth
b In the boy Robert were all the el
It men,s that finally eliminated al
: were consummated in the gentle'
y soundest, knightliest soldier OF the a
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