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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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ountry; reaching into the supreme heights of military achieve-ment ; yet no less eminent as private citizen, counselor of youth, friend ofevery man. i^r w September 18, 1865, a solitary horseman rode into Lexington, Virginia,a gracious, regal figure, seated on a handsomely proportioned, muscular,gray horse. General Lee on Traveler! Instinctively, the community seemed to have sensed the presence of thisgreatest figure of the South. The narrow streets that the celebrated war-horse traversed were livened with men, women and children in earnestrivalry to offer homage to the world-famous soldier who had come toLexington to direct the education of Southern youth at WashingtonCollege. It was a reverent oblation to the idol of their hearts; and it wasa triumphal re-entry into the hearts of hundreds of thousands of otherswho had followed his banner in stirring feats of arms; or, through heroicsacrifice, had served their stricken land as valorously as if by sword andfire on the field of battle.
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For here again was concrete evidence of the purity and loftiness ofGeneral Lees character. A powerful corporation of the Great Metropolis had tendered him whatwas then regarded a fabulous sum to become its president; transatlanticadmirers had urged him to accept an estate and honors abroad; otheradvantageous offers had come to him, each showing the way to a life ofease in agreeable surroundings. But, as ever throughout his life, he sawonly the narrow path of duty, and severely putting aside self, he consist-ently trod the way, sustained by the elevated sense of personal responsibilitythat had set the stamp of greatness on him in early youth; that had madehim the model student at West Point; the instant champion of his nativeState when internal revolution threatened her authority; the soldier una-fraid in the wild mountain passes of Mexico when, almost single-handed,he turned the tide of war, and drew from General Winfield Scott that greatbrevet of praise: Captain Lee is the very best

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