Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-29

tu Will dpVpicAf aDouI eiVNA -
terday morning while on train en- route
from Boston to Washington, died at
11:20 last night at Providence Hospital.
His death came suddenly. At 8
o'clock last night Major Guy L. Edie,
of the Army Medical Staff, who had
charge of the case, issued bulletin
stating that General Lees respiration
was S2, his temperature 9S.S and his
pulse ll2.
General Lees pulse was l26 yesterday
morning. Last night it had come down
toll2. There had been no particular
change in his condition since morning.
He had taken some nourishment in the
shape of milk. He was conscious and
conversed, but breathing was difficult
and articulati N was thick
Major J. r. Kean, Major Charles +.
Mason, of the army, and DIR. Hardin
were in consultation with Major Edie
over the case.
At l1:l5 last night Drs Kean and
Edie reported that General Lees condi-
| ton had taken turn for the worse. His
breathing became difficult and the pulse
was not so good. A few minutes later
he was dead.
At his bedside when he died we're his
brother, Daniel n. Lee, and Drs. Edie and
Kean. The end came quite suddenly
and was without pain.
Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee and two of the
daughters will arrive today from Fort
Oglethorpe, near Chickamauga Park.
These daughters are Virginia Lee and
Ellen, the wife OF Lieutenant Rhea, who
is stationed at Chickamauga. Lieut..
George Mason Lee, son, who married
daughter of General Burton, and
Lieutenant Brown and his wife, who was
formerly Miss Annie Lee, are in San
Francisco. They have left for the East.
Lieutenant Brown and Lieut.. George
Lee are both attached to the Seventh
cavalry, which has been ordered to sail
for the Philippines on Sunday. Their
orders have been c)untermanded. Lieu
tenant Brown and his wife have been
spending their honeymoon on the
Pacific coast, and but for delay in
sailing they would now be on their way
TO the Orient. All of General Lees
children except Lieut.. Fitzhugh Lee,
jr, who is in the Philippines, will go
to Washington as fast as trains can bring
them.
AS was stated in yesterdays Gazette,
General Lee was on the Federal express
when be was stricken, the train being
near a terminal OF the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad, in the
vicinity of the Harlem river. He first
complained of pain about the heart,
which was diagnosed, but later he sus.
tanned a serious stroke of paralysis,
affecting his entire left side. The train
was transferred TO Jersey City and the
Pullman car Ludlow, in which General
Lee rode, was brought all the way TO
Washington. Several physicians minis
tered to the general during the run be-
tween jersey City and Washington.
Gen. Lee left Washington several
weeks ago in the interest of the James
town Exposition, for which he had been
working very hard. He at that time
said he felt III the best of health. He
had Just returned from western States,
where he had succeeded in interesting
legislature in the exposition aud after
leaving Washington be went north, APP
pearing before ire legislatures of Penn
sylvania, New jersey and New York,
seeking State appropriations for the
exposition. He was in Boston Thurs
day to advocate the representation of
Massachusetts in the exposition and in
the afternoon appeared before the legis-
latiye committee on federal relations,
making strong address in favor of the
erection of State building by Massa-
chusetts at the exposition.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was the son Of
Sidney Smith Lee "a brother of Robert
+. Lee who was an officer in the United
States navy and aiterward in the Con-
federate navy. He was the great.grand-
son of Light Horse Harry Lee, and on
his mothers side the great grandson Of
George Mason, who drafted the bill Of
rights OF Virginia and stood shoulder TO
shoulder with Patrick Henry in the
formative per; of our colonial history.
Fitzhugh Lee was born at Clermont,
Fairfax county, Va, November 10,
1885. He was graduated from West
Point in 1856 and chose the cavalry, the
arm of the service that had been the
choice of his dashing ancestor. He be-
gan his service az a line officer in that
wonderful regiment of the old regular
Second Cavalry.
The regiments first colonel was Albert
Sidney Johnston, who became famous
as general in the Confederate army.
Robert Z. Lee was lieutenant colonel.
The senior major was William ]. Har-
dee, author of 'fHardee's Tactics" and
the next ranking major was George H.
Thomas, now known to fame as "The
Rock of Chickamauga," because he held
The gap at RossyiIe while the Union
army, cut to pieces, retreated back upon
chattanooga. Van Dorm, another fam
,us soldier, was major in the old
second calvary. Z. Kirby Smith was
,aptain of the troop in which Fitzhugh |
Lee served. 4
General Lees experiences 10 fighting
Jomauchee Indians have often been l
old, and bis valiant actions in encounters {
With the savages are part of history.
The deceased resigned his commission Z