Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-05-03
Lee with his Army.

AS the civil war recedes farther
"a id farther from the present day
Elnre looms larger and larger in the
story of il the figure of Gen. Robert
r. ee, the adored leader cf the
Conf derate armies. There is scarcely
a no sehold of Importance in the
South, n which some story of him is
not pre- lily told, but few illustrate
the qua, ties for which he was be-
loved b tier than these which the
New @ 'eans Times. Democrat re-
ceived fir IN woman who met the
general o, his last retreat:
The army had halted two miles
from Peter sburg, on the road to APP
pomattox, a I'd General Lee and his
staff had be, asked to dinner at the
home of a W, Unknown jurist at Sum
NIT. Iced mint julep was the favor
ite beverage Q Virginia gentlemen
in those days, 6 d when the staff and
guests had ass inbled, just before
dinner was ammo need, the glasses
were passed. Gen Lee was in con-
versation with young lady. He
offered his glass to her after the old
style, then barely rails d it to his
| lips, and set it down unit ted. He
took up and drank instead a ,lass of
water. Looking round the ,>om,
where all the men were drinking
with relish, he said:
edo you know, l really ybelieve this
glass of water refreshes the inner
man far more than the julep."
Even his hosts famous LIQUOR
could not tempt him. 1t was said
that a bottle of brandy presented to
the General before the war was re-
turned to the giver unopened after
the surrender, with the request that
she would use it in some case of
need.
At the dinner General Lee took a
cup of coffee and added sugar and
cream. 1t was especially fine Java,
brought in before the war, and his
hostess exclaimed, "Oh, General Lee
DO you take cream in your after-din-
ner coffee?
81 haven't tasted coffee for 80
long," he said, smiling, "that I am
afraid to take it in it's full strength" !"
"It is true," said one of his staff.
"Every bit of coffee that has come
into his hands he has always sent it
to the hospital"
AS he rode away from Summit on
his famous horse, Traveller, he
passed the home of poor old wo-
man who had sent her sons to the
army. The youngest, whom she
called "Dolly," was her special pet.
Like every poor Southern woman,
she believed General Lee was the
personal protector of her son. When
she saw him she rushed out and
caught his bride.
go General Lee" she cried, "what
has become of my Dolly p'
Although he was even then without
hope of saving his army, and was
engrossed with plans for making the
last desperate stand in the faint pos
sibility of union with General
Johnston, the great leader, divining
at once that "Dolly" must be a SOL
dier son, replied in his gentlest man.
ner:
"Madam, if you tell me Dolly's
name and the name of his company
and command, will try to find out
for you."
His hostess said as he rode away
all the tales she had heard and read
of warriors and their deeds rushed
to her mind, and she felt that never
were their qualities of courtesy and
chivalry personated in another as in
the South's general.-Youth's Com
panion.
+. M. COckrell, Jr., son of ex- Sen
ator Cockrell, is the inventor of a
sugar cane cutter that promises to re-
volutionize the sugar planting indus.