Identifier: genrobertedwardl00broc (find matches)
Title: Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914
Subjects: Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Publisher: Richmond, Va., B. F. Johnson Publishing Co
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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. . . . Begin with a grammar, a dictionary, and two hoursper day will give you the reading ; a French familys acquaintancewill give you the speaking. Farewell, my ever dear son. As we have seen. General Lee determined, after spending nearlyfive years in the West Indies in vain hope of the restoration ofhis health, to return to Virginia; and, in January, 1818, tookpassage from Nassau in a homeward bound New England schooner.From the outset of the voyage, however, he grew rapidly worse.On nearing the United States coast, feeling that he could never reachhis native State alive, he requested the captain of the vessel to landhim at Cumberland Island, off the coast of Georgia. Here was thesite of Dungeness, the beautiful estate of his old commanderand friend, General Nathaniel Greene, and the residence of thelatters married daughter, Mrs. James Shaw. The dying soldierwas lovingly received at Dungeness, and most tenderly cared forduring the two months of his lingering agony. A characteristic
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SECTION OF JEFFERSONS MAP OF VIRGINIA. 132 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD EEE, anecdote of this period survives. General Lees sufferings were sogreat as to overcome at times his habitual amiability and self-control,and he would impetuously order everybody out of the room.Finally, Mom Sarah, an old and esteemed negro servant who hadbeen Mrs. Greenes favorite maid, was deputed to wait upon him.The first time she entered his room it was at an unpropitiousmoment. He ordered her out, and emphasized the peremptorinessof his order by hurling a boot at her head. )\Iom Sarah was aston-ished at such treatment, and promptly picked up the boot and hurledit back. The old warrior smiled grimly in the midst of his pain andanger, and from that moment to the day of his death \\ould permitno one else to do him special service. He died on the following 25th of March, and was buried at Dungeness with military and naval honors. Henry Lee andNathaniel Greene, who in life rode boot to boot at the head of thearmy, sl

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