Gen. Robert E. Lee
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Excerpt from Gen. Robert E. Lee: Commemorative Address Before the New York Southern Society on the Anniversary of the Great Commander´s Birth, January 19th, 1906 The South may claim with pardonable pride that it furnished not only the President of each of the divided sections in the struggle for the establishment of a separate Confederacy, but the great central figure of the civil war for the North as well as for the South. History will accord that Abraham Lincoln was the one conspicuous figure on the side of the Union, and for the South none will challenge that claim for Lee. They were, moreover, representatives of the widely divergent classes of our section, the plebeian and the patrician. The story of Lincoln might well be classed with "The short and simple annals of the poor," while Lee came straight from the cavaliers and their descendants, the wealthy cultured aristocracy of Virginia. "His father. Colonel Henry Lee, better known as "Light Horse Harry" was the beau sabreur of the American army in the War of Independence, and it was he who proclaimed George Washington as "First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Upon his mother´s side he claimed the lineage of the Carters of Shirley. Born on January 19th, 1807, his childhood and youth were passed in the cultivated circles of the tidewater region of Virginia. At the age of 18 he entered West Point and completing the course of study without a single mark of demerit he graduated second in a class of forty-six. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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