The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-05-05
OLD SOLDIER
SURRENDERS
GEN. FITZHUGH LEE Sue
SOSUMBS TO STROKE OF
APOPLEXY.
WAS A VETERAN OF THREE WARS
A Nephew of Gen. Robert E.
Lee, and One of the Highest
Generals in the Confed-
crate Service.

WASHINGTON. April 2S.-Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee, OF Virginia, died at the
Providence Hospital in this city at
1920 o. clock tonight as the result of
an attack of apoplexy and paralysis
with which he was stricken early this
morning while travelling by rail from
Boston to Washington. At his bedside
when he died were his brother. Daniel
Lee. ana Drs. Edie and Kean.
The end came quite suddenly and
was without pain. The dead General
was doing fairly well considering the
severity of the attack until about 10
O'Clock tonight, when change came
for the worse.
Gen. Lee was stricken with apoplexy,
the entire left side being affected at 3
O'Clock this morning. The train had
just left the Harlem River when the
stroke came.
The train bearing the General aTIi-
we'd in Washington shortly after 10
O'Clock. Under the direction of Maj
Kean, U. s. A., of the Surgeon Gen.
eral s Office, the patient was removed
to the Providence Hospital.
The news of the General s condition
had preceded him to Washington, and
many of his army and personal friends
were at the Pennsylvania Station to
meet him. Included among them were
Maj. Kean and Maj. Mason of the
Medical Department; DR.. st. George
Tucker, of George Washington Uni
versIty Mai. Robert Hunter. OF Vir-
ginia; Holmes Conrad, of Virginia,
and b. H. Fowle.
JOKINGLY REPLIES.
DR.. Tucker invited Gen. Lee to &C.
cupy quarters at his residence here.
The General, who was conscious, re-
celved DR.. Tucker IN the car when the
invitation was extended. He replied.
smilingly:
81 am In charge of this man Kean,
and he says | must go to the hospital
and guess will have to acquiesce.
Mrs Lee. who is at Fort Oglethorpe,
Ga, with her daughter. has teen mott
fed. as also has the son. George, who
IS in San Francisco preparing to sail
for the Philippines. The other son,
who is in the Philippines, has been
cabled of his father condition.
A physician was taken -aboard the
tram at Jersey City. AT Philadelphia
he gave place to another, who accom-
panied the General to baltimore, where
still another was taken aboard and
made the trip to Washington. Glen.
Lee had been spending a few days IN
Boston and was returning to Washing
ton on his way to JOIN Mrs. Lee.
Gen. Lee was one of the moving
spirits in the jamestown Exposition
project. He was President of the
Exposition Company ard had been
working constantly and with marked
uccess in its behalf.
PURPOSE OF LAST TRIP.
He had made several trips through
the West and appeared before the
Legislatures of Pennsylvania and New
York seeking State appropriations for
the exposition. This was the purpose
of his foston visit.
Gen. Lee was 6S years of age and
always had enjoyed robust health.
However he had led an exceptionally
active life. being a veteran of three
wars. He served in the Mexican war,
was in the Confederate army during
the Civil War, and his conspicuous
services in the Spanish wal is current
history.
Since he took up the work of the
jamestown Exposition he had made
his official residence in Norfolk, but
his activities in connection with this
work gave him very little time there.
During the session of Congress just
closed the General spent a large part of
his time in Washington in the interest
of the necessary legislation authorizing
the, exposition.