Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-17

| suit OF clothes. his form erect. his counte-
nance glorious with fortitude and hope,
mounted Traveller (his Confederate
gray" he called HIM and rode slowly
down toward Ninth street, and thence
TO the scene of one of the bloodiest bat
ties of the war He achieved a victory
that day.
When General Lee sent word TO the
President that Richmond must be evacu-
ated. he was aware that his wife and
daughter were here, but realizing the
necessity for this action, he gave the
order, Notwithstanding the danger it
might subject his loved ones to.
HIS RETURN FROM APPOMATTOX.
When the General returned from Apo
mattox he went straight 10 1.-THE Mess"
where his wife awaited him. He rode up
to the door on Traveller, and though he
had surrendered and been crushed be-
meath defeat. he walked up the broad
stone steps, with head erect, and steady
eye-up stairs to his wife's re-
treat-two chastened souls, glorious
amidst defeat
From that moment until he left Rich
mond he never went out Of the house until
after dark. Upon the back verandas he
took his exercise In his defeat he was
as glorious as he was in victory. He
was the most noble and honored hero that
people could ever know.
TEMPORARY ABODE IN CUMBER-
LAND
The General left Richmond to take up
his abode at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth
Preston Cooke, in Cumberland county
and there he remained until called to the
presidency of Washington and Lee Uni
versity. There he quietly finished his life,
and his remains were inferred beneath the
chapel floor. At the same time that he re
ceived the call TO Washington and Lee.
General Lee received many offers, which
he graciously declined. One of these was
from a party of English admirers, who
wrote him that 100000 had been put i'm the
Bank of England to his credit. and would
be his if he would come 10 England TO
live.
DAY THEY LEFT RICHMOND.
Mrs. Sally Nelson Robins, in Frank Les
lies Monthly, gives the following interest
ing story of the General
''The day the Lees left Richmond, after
the evacuation, the General went out 70
say good-by to somebody who could not
come TO him. AS he walked up Franklin
street he saw a lady standing on the side
walk by pile of trunks She explained
that she was i'm a terrible diemma-she
trunks. and could not find one thing to
wear on her head
Get 1t out said the General
How could / undo or tie up those
dreadful trunks| she asked.
30. can do that he answered as 10
stopped down. and. in n matchless dignity
which exalted the meanest act. he united
the trunks and did them up again with
wartime rope. not with leather and
buckles of the present day"
BORN IN WESTWORELAND.
General Lee was born ut Stratford.
Westmoreland county on the 18th Of Jan
uary, 1907, and when years old removed
to Alexandria with his father. When he
reached the age OF his father took him
TO the West Indies He returned to this
country after his fathers death. and IN
1875 his name was entered upon the rolls
of the United States Military Academy AT
West Point -Four years later he became
a lieutenant OF the Engineer Corps. lie
fought through the Mexican war with the
United States troops. and when the civil
war became imminent resigned and cast
his lot with the Confederacy. being made
commander in chief of the army.