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Title: Robert E. Lee, soldier, patriot, educator : with special reference to his life and services at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Lee Memorial Fund
Subjects: Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 Washington and Lee University
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Pa. : Patterson & White, printers)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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e were of such par-ticular care to him. The suggestion of Traveler waiting to take him overthe hills only brought a sorrowful negative from his moving head. Lapsing into delirium, he again saw his invincible hosts and his belovedlieutenants in titanic struggle, their victorious eagles leading on; again hisgenius flashed athwart the battlefield; brilliant A. P. Hill* saluted hisorders; the great movement went forward—and he slept. It was on the 12th of October, 1870, that the end came. Tranquilly thisgreat soul left its majestic temple. Then all the trumpets sounded for himon the other side. Born at Stratford, in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on the 19th dayof January, 1807; died in the presidents house of Washington College,Lexington, Virginia, on the 12th day of October, 1870. Sixty-three years,so covered with laurel, so crowded with public service, so honored by men theworld over, so revered by those who were near him or knew his exalted * Last words: Tell Hill he must come up. I
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,£5 GO 1-1 o Pm service, have not been the part of another man. Trenchantly has SenatorHill given him space in history: He was Caesar without his ambition;Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon without his selfishness, andWashington without his reward. On the morning of October 13th General Lees body was borne to thecollege chapel that he had designed, preceded by many Confederate soldiers,followed by the Lexington clergy. Traveler, his war-horse, with equip-ments bound in crape, occupied the fourth position in the cortege. Trus-tees and faculty of the college, cadets of the Virginia Military Institute,citizens of the town and country, completed the mournful column, movingfrom the presidents house beneath the flag of the State of Virginia. Onthe chapel platform he lay in state for two days, the casket blanketed inevergreens and flowers, and the face uncovered that all could have a lastview of the illustrious soldier. On October 14, a great funeral procession was formed, with Genera

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