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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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t lies just above the mausoleum—the marvelous conception of a Virginia sculptor, Edward Virginius Valen-tine, in whose studio at Richmond this most exquisite of all memorialmarbles took form under his inspired chisel. January 19, 1907, one hundred years after the birth of General Lee andthirty-seven years after his death, a Lee Centennial at Washington and LeeUniversity produced a demonstration of feeling that has rarely attended alike celebration. The Lee alumni attended, almost entirely, a great num-ber of men who have deeply etched the evidence of their work and characterin the higher attainments of half a world. Leading men of the North cameto testify to the softening and warmth of hearts where once only flint ofhatred struck fire. By cable, wire and letter the intense interest of meneverywhere was manifested. The letter of the President of the UnitedStates, Theodore Roosevelt, illustrates the general recognition at this timeof General Lees eminence as man, soldier, and citizen:
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oj 5 u, O p ►—J 1-1 i-, o General Lee has left us the memory, not merely of his extraordinaryskill as a general, his dauntless courage and high leadership in campaignand battle, but also of that serene greatness of soul characteristic of thosewho most readily recognize the obligations of civic duty. Once the warwas over he instantly undertook the task of healing and binding up thewounds of his countrymen, in the true spirit of those who feel malicetoward none and charity toward all; in that spirit which from the throesof the civil war brought forth the real and indissoluble Union of today.It was eminently fitting that this great man, this war-worn veteran of amighty struggle, who at its close simply and quietly undertook his duty asa plain, everyday citizen, bent only upon helping his people in the paths ofpeace and tranquillity, should turn his attention to educational work.* * * He declined to go abroad, saying that he sought only a place toearn honest bread while engaged in som

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