Robert ELee, soldier, patriot, educator : with special reference to his life and services at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va . 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 t
Robert ELee, soldier, patriot, educator : with special reference to his life and services at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va . 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 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, al
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