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Title: The early life, campaigns, and public services of Robert E. Lee; with a record of the campaigns and heroic deeds of his companions in arms
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Pollard, Edward Alfred, 1831-1872
Subjects: Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 Generals -- Confederate States of America Confederate States of America -- Biography United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Biography
Publisher: New York, E.B. Treat & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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rved all the respect and affection with whichhe was regarded. The popular esteem was won by none of thearts for acquiring popularity. It came from his well-balancedcharacter. All men admitted his high sense of honor, his unos-tentatious practice of all the Cliristian virtues, his true religiousfeeling, his calm endurance of untoward results, and his quietobservance of the duties of life. Indeed, the key to his action isto be found in the letter to his son, where he says— Duty is thesublimest word in our language. No one doubted his purity ofmotive. In manner, quiet, courteous, and dignified ; in morals,irreproachable; in intellect, strong, clear, and self-poised; a gen-tleman by habit, instinct, and descent; a Christian, not only exactin the observances of his church, but illustrating his faith by hisdaily doing, he was one of the few marked men of his time—oneof those who are beloved while living, and renerated whendead. THE NEW YORK PUBUC I)-- ASTOR, UEMOX ANDTILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
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:iB,Hiii-t> LIEUT.-GEN. STONEWALL JACKSOI(. CHAPTER XV. Boyhood of Thomas Jonathan Jackson.—His experience at West Point.—His studiesand habits.—A novel analysis of awkward manners.—Jacksons promotions in theMexican War.—His love of fight.—Eecollections of Fool Tom Jackson at Lex-ington.—A study of his face and character.—His prayers for the Union.—Areflection on Christian influences in America.—Jackson appointed a colonel inthe Virginia forces.—In command at Harpers Ferry.—Constitution of the Stone-wall Brigade.—Jackson promoted to Brigadier.—His action on the field of Ma-nassas.—He turns the enemys flank and breaks his centre.—How much of thevictory was due him.—His expedition towards the head waters of the Potomac. Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born at Clarksburg, inHarrison county, Virginia, in 1824. He came of a Scotch-Irishfamily that had settled in Virginia in 1748 ; and a perhaps fanci-ful relation has been traced between his ancestral stock

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