The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-07
FITTING MEMORIAL TOl ONE
OF SOUVgFS5 GREAT LaDEB
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velopment of sOungr maalaoo,i and tn Al
nose is both m0ble anu herOic- Thee
statue cost 81 400, Ett Is tril ssls- OK
affection from his smls son. Bsewitt
Lee. of ChicaeSN Ca9tRin WflliaEaa T.
IRigby. chairma Wofiitiis XasksburE, ma
tional military park COMMISSION and
hundreds of vezeFanEs OF she ssnth,
lwho followed th8date.asnsaal in AttleI
aud others who admired hau- r Eby
although a NorBnRTn' sEddtieT. horn in
Iowa. was associated with GssNelal Lee
when the latteru was liirmself cllaar'
man of the park c0mnlsssilsnt- n aon-
stant association hs gaasy t0 love ,ht'i
modest southerLesi wsIuAsH dec etliIuag
4 years were devotMidt0 oeTnfertirlg the
4 ties of brotherhood bAtEaaHsE the n0gth
\ and south little- TIME issSore has
death General Len, CaItaiin &Sgt'y and
Colonel John c. aSeFressl. al CticHEo-
\ three members ca the naaiE comEOiss
\ sion. were makinassin. iirssls-cdaoa of the
beautiful park. wheR tlsay re@ehed the
I ra5rroaa redoubt galArfs GifmeTal Less
greatest victory l@s wNn, AS atey
staod upon thiss mnineaHt'e Captain
| Righy went TO Ganeral us-e and asked
him to stand again usRn the spt
where ne had diaetedl Hta movements
of his troops. explaining to him mat
vears Batter. wheRrtefh hxd passed away
Iha Eanted a moannaaa erected Epon
1.-THE very spot tn commemorate his
Etrn1aph. General Lee yielded tus.the
Ireouest and said,e "fesPsiy. you aBtall
Ivery goOd to nn. Captain HAgby
km1rRed the spen ana IT is theras the
STATUE To Genaral lea will stan2lfon
ever as a memaial.
Il Among the aentri3GtOrs TO tSant sta
) tue fund wass aaJmR1 President stoose
5 lvelt. who admired General Lee
/ General Stsnhen Dill Lee WAS. bolr
e Iat Charleston. South Carolina. Ssptem
v lber -. 1885. and spent his aughVo1
1. lin the Caro8na's> He graduaedl iron
It West Point. in 1854 as first lsuteWan
- lof artillerm. He was assigned to- th'
n. Fouth Unded States artillery ana wa
rs connected with that arm ca the mill
"A tary service until he resigned iM 1856
a. 70 cast his fortunes with ,Sle south L
whose cause he offered hss heart an
sword He was one of the two officer
sent BY General BeauregSrd to deman
the surrender of Fort Sumter an
when the order was refused command
ed the nearest water battery to ope
I'M fire. lie was captain in Hampton
legion where he serFed until Noven
Der. 1861. when he was commissions
az. major OF artillery and in 1862. wa
to appointed lieutenant-colonel and gail
ars ed distinction al Seven Pines and a
all battle of The Wilderness. In the Roi
of campaign in 1862 he was promoted
all be colonel late in that year he a.
nrt amounted brigadier general.
ith President Jefferson Davis and aSSig
the ed to duty in the western division
the Confederate states. He was sher
after engaged in all the campaign
and movements that preceded the
vestment and fall of ViekSbUrg. Aft
the surrender at Vieksburg he w
'nH paroled and later exchanged. I'm q
lN latter part of 1868 he was mann
major general and the following ye
was made lieutenant general ben
of given command OF the department
rob. Mississippi. Alabama. Tennessee a
erv. Eastern Louisiana. and at the clio
ster Of the war was campaigning in Nor
un- Carolina.
the After the war he was elected sta
mes senator from Lowndes county Miss
sippi. where he made his home.
mis- resigned from that position to becol
was first president of the agricultural a
the mechanical college at Starksville.
ago retired from this position when co
men missioned a member Of the vicksbu
,ney national military park by Preside
was one Of the founders.