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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. So it was that to one homeless duringthe days of strife he wrote: Occupy yourself in helping thosemore helpless than yourself. So it was that, when the gallantGeneral Phil Kearney fell at Ox Hill, he sent his sword and horsethrough the lines to his mourning widow; and that when Lincolnwas struck down by an assassins hand, he denounced the deed as a crime previously unknown to the country, and one that mustbe deprecated by every American. And so, too, when one dayhere a man humbly clad sought alms at his door, Lee pointedto his retiring form and said: That is one of our old soldierswho is in necessitous circumstances. He fought on the other side,but we must not remember that against him now. And this poorsoldier said of him afterward: He is the noblest man that everlived. He not only had a kind word for me, but he gave me somemoney to help me on my way. Better is that praise than anygarland of the poet or the rhetorician. Finding that his supply of provisions was too scant to satisfy
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by Warren E. Uavis. CONFEDERATE SHARPSHOOTERS AT FREDERICKSBURG. (245) 246 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE, his army s immediate needs, Lee sent Longstreet with two of hisdivisions to the district south of Petersburg, hoping by so doingto relieve the drain upon the scanty commissariat. This reductionof the force at Fredericksburg left the Confederate army at thatpoint numbering forty thousand men, while the Federals in theirfront were a round one hundred thousand. After Longstreet hadbeen sent away, General Lee, with the comfort of his army in view,decided to move his position to some point more remote from theFederal lines. After consultation with his officers this movewas considered inadvisable, and he remained at Fredericksburg,quietly making preparations for the coming campaign. In themeantime General Joe Hooker had been appointed to the commandof the Army of the Potomac, a change which had been made im-perative by the ridiculous effort of Burnside to move his armywith its immense artil

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