El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-19
GEN. II Der Z. LEE.
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fy himself, if in name only, with pros
porous insurance companies and gre at
manufacturing associations One o.
fered him $40, 1000 year and anoth' r
$50, 600, both of which be refused, be-
cause he would not re Give pay where
he d d not render service, and his COL
lege duties engrO=sed his entire time
and streng' h: yet his salary a. the pre-
sideut was only a modest $4,000, it is
said.
His health began to fail two or three
years before his death. He died at 9
O'Clock on the morning of the 18th Of
October, 1870. For some days previous
he had been delirious, and he talked
of battles won and lost, Of action on
the field and the movements of the
enemy. Among his last words were:
Strike my tent! Send for HILL"
They bore his body to the college
chapel, escorted by a guard of honor
composed of confederate soldiers. Next
the hearse was led the generals fam
Gus horse traveller, who survived him
but a few months. They buried his
clay IN a tomb beneath the chapel.
According to his request no funeral
Grafton was pronounced over his body.
Rev. William N. Pendleton, his old
friend, re d the burial services of the
Episcopal church, of which he was a
member. Here rests his mortal p+rt
but where brave men are gathered in
the upper world there will be found
his soul.
LEES PERSPICACITY
In his recolleciions of Robert E
Lee as a. College Preside pub
lished in the Outlook. S. ID. Nc
quiet humor of the dist:nguiShe sOu' h.
ern general:
He was an Episcopalian-av estryme n
of Grace church. General PrndietOn,
his former chief of artillery. was rec
tor, and General Smith, sup rim tendent
of the Virginia Military institute, WIS
also a vestryman.
The latter was not on agre cable
terms with the rector, and compla ned
to the officers of the church that the
cadets, among them his own son, wer e
deserving the church Of Their fathers.
and that I persuasion could keep.th N
from attending DR.. Pralt's church
tPresby teriau).
The doctor had very beautiful
daughter, Grace, and while General
Smith was pushing his objecti1ns to
the rector, General Lee, with twinkle
in his eye, said to Smith: 'Gepeca ,
possibly the magnet which attr acts
your son is not so much the doctors
DIS We QoCtOI . 1IaCC.
1t is said the point silenced General
smith.
The value of character to boy is
veil illustrated by this Incident in con-
nection with the late civil war: Gener-
III Lee, in conversation with one of his
officers, was overheard by plain
farmers boy to remark that he had de-
,.ided to march upon Getty in
-tead of Harrisburg. The lad watched
10 see if the troops went in that direc-
ion and then telegraphed the fact to
Governor Curtin. The boy was sent
for at once by a special engine, and as
the governor and his friends stood
about, the former remarked anxious.
ly:
81 would give my right hand to know
that this LAD ellis the TRUTH A cor
Jorai promptly replied: Governor
curtin, L know that boy. L lived in the
.Ame neigh borhood, and L know that it
5 impossible for him to lie. There is
lot a drop of false blood in his veins"
"a fifteen minutes from that time the
Union troops were pushing on toward
Gettysburg, where they gained the
VictOry.'