Identifier: leadingamericanso00john (find matches)
Title: Leading American soldiers
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Johnston, R. M. (Robert Matteson), 1867-1920
Subjects: United States. Army Generals -- United States
Publisher: London : Archibald Constable
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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out in bold relief as the unanswerable wit-ness that in those terrible years his people were not somuch wrongdoing as misguided. And the South is its ownwitness, for even in failure and adversity it set up it- defeatedgeneral as its hero; a race that chooses such heroes hasnothing to fear from the future. Robert Edward Lee was born on the 19th of January, 1S07, of an ancient family of Virginia. Hi- earliest American progenitor was Richard, grandson of Sir Henry Lee who served Queen Elizabeth. Richard crossed the Atlantic in the year 1641, accompanying Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, in the capacity of secretary. He settled in the colony, and in due course his descendants multiplied. Early in the eighteenth century one of them, Thomas Lee, became governor, and built the family mansion named Stratford in the county of Westmoreland, the county of the Fairfaxes and Washingtons. Another descendant, Richard Henry, towards the end of that same century, presented a remarkable 256
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