The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-03-30
MISS MILDRED LEE
DAUGHTER OF GREAT CHIEF.
TIAN OF THE SOUTH.
STRICKEN With APOPLEXY
Was in New Orleans Recuperating and
Died at the Johnston Home-A Bril-
liant and Beautiful Woman and
Honored in Many Lands.

Picayune, Tuesday, March %: Mildred
Lee youngest daughter of the great Con-
federate chieftian, General Robert E,
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 the
death of the daughter of the peerless
leader will be read with sentiments OF
deepest emotion; long lost memories will
be recalled, the hearts of the veterans
will be bowed down as the great days OF
'6I-65 loom up, and in the death of Mil
bred Lee they see another of the beau
tiful and noble links that bound them to
the sacred past broken, and know that
soon all that was greatest and hottest in
that memorable chapter of the nation
life must be consigned to the hands OF
Southern historians to preserve pure and
unsullied 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, child of those days that stirred
mems souls; and it is 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 Confeieracy 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, This 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 laugh
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 wonian's nature, and all
that was sweetest, purest and most filial
in the growing wosnanhood. ;
She was born in the old family home
OF Arlington, at the time when wars and
rumors of wars filled the land; at time
when the nation was disturbed, and Gen
eral Lee, still in the service of the I'm
ion, was hoping with prayerful heart
that rupture might not come, but that
one and undivided the States would
stand. She was babe in arms when
ne resigned his position in the United
States service and went to Richmond to
,lace his sword and life at the command
If his beloved State of Virginia, for
lbove loyalty to the Union, above the
lation, stood with him the inalienable
doctrine of States rights, and he held
hat according to the Constitution his
lrst duty was to the State that gave
lin birth, his own mother-land. There
S pretty tradition in the family of
When he came home and Mrs. Lee went
onward to meet him with the baby,
Mildred, in her arms. Then came the
eparation, and General Lee passed from
is home to the command of the South
TN armies. 1t would be supererogation
0 recall the history of the Lee family in
hose days, the life at Arlington, where
drs. Lee lived with the children, the
urning of the beautiful white House,
list over the way, and finally how she
1as compelled to abandon to the Union
oldiery the historic home, and, seeking
, join General Lee. was sent by him to /
richmond as the safest place for her and |
ne children. Little Mildred met her
ather once on the battle field in that
our Of desolation, and when Mrs. Lee
laced her in his arms he was surprised
find how the child had grown. But
Richmond the family went, and right
ere was shown the beautiful life Of the
ZEE household in those times. Such
ind, beautiful letters did General Lee
rite home, and there was always a men
on Of the baby and a fervent God bless
III and the children, Minis" as he
He'd his wife. Il was a busy, busy
Dme, for Mrs. Lee spen. her time in
wing for the soldiers and organized a
hitting class among her children and a
w young friends, and extracts from Il
e letters from the general, some of
hich were kindly given to the Picayune
| Miss Mary Lee during her last visit |;
! New Orleans, about two years ago, |;
low beautiful glimpse Of that home
&, and the joy when the letters from |,
& father off at battle came and the
anks from The soldiers and himself /,
rich he sent fof HE socks that his vile Il
i !