The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-02
MISS MILDRED LEE
DAUGHTER OF GREAT CHIEF.
TIAN OF. THE SOUTH.
STRICKEN With AP0PLEXY
Was in New Orleans Recuperating an
Died at the Johnston HOme-A Bril-
! liant and Beautiful Woman and
Honored in Many Lands.

tederate Chlettlan, General Robert
Lee, died suddenly yesterday at the resi-
dence of Mrs William Preston John
ston, the immediate cause being apo
plexy.
Throughout the South the news of tn.
death OF the daughter of the peerless
leader will be read with sentiments O
deepest emotion; long lost memories vii
be recalled, the hearts of the veterans
will be bowed down as the great days O.
6165 loom up, and in the death Of Mil
dred Lee they see another of the beau
tiful and noble links that bound them tc
the sacred past broken, and know tina
soon all that was greatest and hottest il
that memorable chapter of the nation
life must be consigned to the hands Of
Southern historians to preserve pure and
unsulied as the hearts and hands that
wove that history
Not since the death of Miss Winnie
Davis, the "Daughter of the Confeder-
acy," will the great heart Of the South
be more deeply stirred than in the pass
ing of the daughter Of Robert Lee For
she, too, was daughter of the Confed-
eracy, a child of those days that stirred
mems souls: and it is a most touching,
and to the. people of New Orleans it
must ever be sweet and precious
thought to remember that as the family
of the COME ieracy loved New Orleans,
and he himself, the great leader, died
here in our CITY, SO, too, did the family
of Robert Lee. commander of the South
ern hosts. love this old city of the
Southland, this loyal town, and time and
again did his daughters come to dwell
among her people. and now his precious
Mildred, his little Minis as he him
self used to call this Youngest child, lies
dead here, and no honor is too great, no
ointment too precious to pour forth in
tribute to her memory.
For Mildred Lee stood for the daugl-
tiers of the sorrowful but heroic South !;
the children who came just before and
during that period of war, the children
who were reared during these trying
times of reconstruction that brought
forth indeed all that was grandest and
most heroic in wonlar's nature, and all
that was sweetest, purest and most hllal
in the growing womanhood.
She was born inrthe old family home
Of Arlington, at the time when wars and
rumors of wars filled the land; at a time
when the nation was disturbed, and Gen
eral Lee, sill in the service of the I'm
ion, was hoping with prayerful heart
that rupture might mot come, but that
one and undivided the States, would
stand. She was a babe in arms when
he resigned his position in the United
States service and went to Richmond to
place his sword and life at the command
of his beloved State of Virginia, for
above loyalty to the Union, above the
nation, stood with him the inalienable
doctrine of States rights, and he held
that according to the Constitution his
first duty was to the State that gave
him birth, his own mother-land. There
is a pretty tradition in the family of
when he came home and Mrs. Lee went
forward to meet him with the baby,
Mildred, in her arms. Then came the
separation, and General Lee passed from
his home to the command Of the South
ern armies 1t would be supererogation
to recall the history of the Lee family in
those days, the life at Arlington, where
Mrs, Lee lived with the children, the
burning OF the beautiful white House.
Just over the way, and finally how she
was compelled to abandon to the Union
soldiery the historic home, ard, seeking
to join General Lee, was sent by him to
Richmond as the safest place for her and
The children. Little Mildred met her
father once on the battle field in that
hour Of desolation, and when Mrs. Lee
placed her in his arms he was surprised
o find how the child had grown. But
% Richmond the family went, and right
here was shown the beautiful life of the
Lee household in those times. Such
and, beautiful letters did General Lee
write home, and there was always men
ion of the baby and fervent God bless
'ou and the children, Minis as he
allied his wife. 1t was busy, busy
lome, for Mrs. Lee spent her time in
sewing for the soldiers and organized a !
uniting class among her children and al
ew young friends, and extracts from
he letters from the general, some Of
which were kindly given to the Picayune
" Miss Mary Lee during her last visit
0 New Orleans, about two years ago,
how a beautiful glimpse of that home
life, and the joy when the letters from
he father off at battle came and the
hanks from the soldiers and himself
which he sent for the socks that his wife
nd daughters knit.
In one ofthese letters he speaks Of |