The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-20
NEW YORK DAUGHTERS OF
CONFEDERACY HONOR LEE
Hold Immense Meeting Hotel Aston After Placing
Wreath Tablet Of Great Chieftian
in "Ha Of Fame

escutcheon on which were emblazoned the
heroic deed OF Lighthouse Harry" but
illumined the shield by his own valor and
sacred devotion to duty and has left
that shield to US, to be held in as rever-
entail memory as was that OF Achilles.
Whether carrying the message across
the lava beds Of Pedrigal. when seven
/ other officers had failed in making tho
| attempt, OF which act the COMMUNICATIVE
! chief wrote that Captain Lee had per-
formed the greatest feat OF physical
and moral courage performed by any in
| dividual to my knowledge pending the
| campaign" or stormlng the heights Of
Cerro Gordo. or at Chaputepec, Con
/ spicuously bearing important orders till
ne tainted from wound and loss OF two
nights sleep at the batteries" or at
Contreras, Moline del Rey or throughout
the whole of the Mexican War, or In the
camp or field during the years from '6l
| 10 DO, he was always and everywhere
actnated by stern sense of duty ava
an implicit faith In a Divine Providence.
| most marked trait in the character.
of General Lee was his fondness for
| children. l have often seen him. during
| me siege OF Petersburg, coming TO the
| Episcopal Church. as was his accustomed
wont on every Sunday morning, unat-
tended save by an orderly, and as he
would d!smount, the little pathway to
me church door would be lined by chill
dren, waiting "the envied kiss to share.
Like Him for whose guidance ba ayar
prayed. he. too never turned n deaf
ear 70 the prayers OF innocent children.
never turned them away, no matter
what might be his sorrow. but alwavs
sag: suffer them to come unto me -
Mter the surrender he sought the
utmost privacy. Positions OF honor.
.rust and emolument were rendered him,
put he declined. though sadly needing
some position where he might commence
life anew with and for his loved ones
at home. The only position in civic
NE which had ever been thought of nv
hlln-that of Governor OF his naive state
was now offered to him, but declined
lest the acceptance might cause ne
neWed trouble to his own people
willing and anxious to take all Of their
political burdens on his own shoulders
ana bear any punishment, that they
might be saved from total ruin under the
crushing iron heel Of the days of recon-
struction.
At last place ia offered where he !
can be with the children whom he loves
30 well, and he accepts the presidency
of Washington College
HIS days at Lexington were the after
math OF his life. Tho college grew and
prospered under his fostering care. To |
inc puplls ne was not only an instructor, !
put a dear, tender friend and counselor;
ms nome life was the eptome OF tho
earnest. conscientious Christian that he |
was; his ways were ways OF pleasant
ness, and all his paths were peace but
The grief that does not speak.
whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids |
It break"
HIS health was broken by the arduo,,s
IRE ne had led, and thus It happened. In
tliAt peautltul month OF fruits and flow
garb In the sunny Southland ~ ~
morning of the 18th OF October 1870
the silver cord was loosed and the golden
bowl was broken: the weary heart had
at last found rest. and the dreaded kna,I
or the college bell tolled out the death
OF Its loved president eAen