Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-08-10

-. eli is beautiful, but | have been
thinking of the poor animals that
must perish in the flames
Near Richmond as storm Of she'll
an, ,he field, General Lee ordered
he attendants to the rear, and while
a.,an,iye!y surveying the area under
So vas seen to stop, pick up fledg-
,;,o srarrow which had fallen to the
.,oro3 and carefully restore it to a
nest overhead.
Amid the carnage of Charlottesville
-. orders TO the Confederate surgeons
mar. Treat the whole field alike"
Nthe Petersburg crater, in the midst
=, the battle, he dismounted to help
wounded man, and kneeling over
him finding him past hope, was heard
% say: Alas! poor soldier! May God
make soft your dying pillow"
4, the door of his home, having
given aims to a poorly clad man beg
cling aid. he pointed TO his retiring
form and said 10 one near him, THAT
4. one of our old soldiers now in ne
cass;,ous circumstances. He fought on
Tho other side, but we must not re-
member that against him now"
Crossing the Pennsylvania line with
bis army he announced, "We make war
only upon armed men," and on one
occasion. in the presence of his SOL
diers, dismounted and put up far
mrs rail fence which they had torn
down.
On the day of General Lees funer-
al 4 Lee Memorial Association was
formed 10 erect some fitting monument
as a token of the love and admiration
Of his countrymen. The president of
the association was General John c.
Breckenridge of kentucky; the Chair
man of its executive committee, Cen
eral W. \. Pendleton, General Lees
Chief of Artillery.
Mrs Mary Gusts Lee was consulted
as to the nature of the memorial,
and at her suggestion the celebrated
sculptor. Ed V. Valentine, who had
lust modelled from life bust of Cen
eral Lee, was called into consultation.
At Mrs. Lees suggestion also, it was
decided to adopt a recumbent figure
Of General Lee. asleep on the field of
battle. and place it on a white marble
sarcOphagus suitably Inscribed and
decorated
The commission was formally award
Cd to Mr. Valentine on November "a,
1870, q year later his model was ap-
proved, and on April |, 1875, the mon
ument vas completed in Mr.. Valen-
tines Richmond studio.
The students of Richmond College
asked the privilege of bearing the ex-
Fenses # transportation and furnish
ing an escort. On April l3, 1875, a
great procession accompanied the fig
ure to the boat-landing, and four days
later the long river journey was end
Cd and Tho statue formally consigned
10 the guardianship of the students
o. Washington and Lee University.
Inc executive committee then turn
u us attention to the still greater
task OF erecting a suitable mausoleum.
and In 1877 approved the design kind
y furnished, as labor of love, by
] L1a.i0rl Nelson, leading archi-
t.,t Of H'.ma~c.
In 1852 the mausoleum committee
having exhausted their funds, offered
" Transfer '.- building and monument
" Washington and Lee University if
u -o-.4 complete the work. This
".' WAS accepted, the mausoleum
.''.-'... 'n' the 18th of June, 1888,
vas selected the day for the for.
Ma. ca.,..~s rs dedication.
'o"o'.'.- Jefferson Davis, of Miss
'o- 'o1u W. Daniel, OF
s--i 20 deliver ora
Genera, Lees mil
after "a his life and
citizen Mr.. Davis,
.---' % al, was pre-