The evening world., 1911-06-10
WAR ANNIVERSARY;
HOW LEES ACTION
HURT UNION CAUSE
President Lincoln Sought to
Keep Noted Southerner
Loyal to the Flag.
OFFERED HIM
But Lee Had lmbibed the Idea
That First Duty Was
to His State.
E HIM COMMAND.
BY PHILIP X. L

In the month Of June. nifty years ago.
10 Confederate armies were being al.
rectcd by President Jefferson Davis.
himself a West Point graduate. and al
expert In military affairs. He was. by
law Of the Confederate States. the COM
mander-in-ohief Of the army and navy.
Moreover. unlike President Lincoln at
that time, he actually commanded the
armies Of the South, there was no lieu
tenant-general. nor even maJor-general
In the Confederate service then. and
brgadier-gcneral was the highest regu-
lar army rank.
President Davis had called to Rich
mond. al his chief aide. a former
colonel of the United States Army
named Robert +. Lee-a tall. power
fully built q with broad high brow.
Greek nose. square jaw and fine red
lios. ana kindly brown eyes that seemed
Jet black in the shade; truly a hand
some man, with dignity and strength
moro than grace in his anner A
man OF iron win. He was fifty-four
years old. For thirty-two years he had
served continuously under the Stars
and Stripes. lighting the battles OF the
Union. building It's fortresses. How did
Il come about that now he was there
IN Richmond. organizing the enemie Of
the Union. planning the first campaign
of the Confederate armies? For an
swer, lot US tell about the Lees OF
Virginia. begin two centuries back
from tho Civil War. when they first
rooted In the soil Of the Commonwealth
Of Virginia:
Col. Richard Lee. a gentleman O,
England and a supporter of the Stuarl
kings, tmmigrated to Virginia aboui
The ear 1910. and later established hi,
plantation In the Northern Neck
tho strip Of country between the Pc,
tomao and Rappahannock Rivers
which was to include westmorelanS
County. one Of the most famous coun
ties In America.
LEFT HIS FORTUNE FOR A NEW
"sTRATFoRD."
Always q Cavalier" Col. Ricnar,
Lee held high Office in the colony an,
strove to hold II for his king agains
oliver Cromwell. His English estat,
was called 'Stratford." In his Will, h
ordered It sold n the money divide'
among his heirs. that they might 60
tsblish = new Stratford In Virginia
And 30 tho Westmor eland estate wa
named Suatford and the Lees of STRAIT
ford Tor $50 years nave been a lead
Ing element in the life blood OF Virginia
a proud family. those Lees-states
mon and folders In every generation
They gave TO the commonwealth q
Virginia the same devotion that thei
ancestors gave to the Stuarts Of Eng
land. Thomas Lee was President O
the commonwealth before the revolu
the commonwealth before the Revolu
Henry Lee. the Cicero OF the Amer
ion Revolution"
In nat mansion at Stratford wer
born NJ signers OF the Declaration G
Observation-Disclosures Henry Lee AN
Francis Lightfoot Lee.
They had honorable ~neighbors-th
Washingtons. Monroes. Paynes. Tw
Presidents OF the United States
George Washington and James Monro
were born In Westmoreland. In III
Gen. Washington wrote; Il know OF n
county that can produce a family "A
distinguished as clever men as on
L0oo."
etTatford came into possession {
Harry Lee. WHO wss called "Ligt