. Unveiling and dedication of monument to Hood's Texas brigade on the capitol grounds at Austin, Texas, Thursday, October twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and ten, and minutes of the thirty-ninth annual reunion of Hood's Texas brigade association held in Senate chamber at Austin, Texas, October twenty-six and twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and ten, together with a short monument and brigade association history and Confederate scrap . and peacefully! 1807—A CENTENNIAL OF GLORY—1907. {Hovston Chronicle.) Within the compass of the century whichcloses with today many wonderful events haveliap
. Unveiling and dedication of monument to Hood's Texas brigade on the capitol grounds at Austin, Texas, Thursday, October twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and ten, and minutes of the thirty-ninth annual reunion of Hood's Texas brigade association held in Senate chamber at Austin, Texas, October twenty-six and twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and ten, together with a short monument and brigade association history and Confederate scrap . and peacefully! 1807—A CENTENNIAL OF GLORY—1907. {Hovston Chronicle.) Within the compass of the century whichcloses with today many wonderful events haveliappened. Many and vast have been the changesin governments and dynasties; many men havebeen born and for a season filled a large placein the eyes of the world, played their parts uponthe stage and passed into oblivion. Kings have reigned and fallen; kingdomsperished, and yet of all the multitude who havelived and died there be but few whose names anddeeds live in the memories of men, and of thatfew, Robert Edward Lee stands pre-eminent. No invidious comparison should be made insuch connection, but slowly but surely the mindsof men in all sections and among all shades ofpolitical belief, are coming to the common view-point that General Lee, in the noblest sense ofthe world, is one of the greatest men who hasever sprung from the Anglo-Saxon race. There have been more intellectual orators, men of more marked forceful- #. GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE . Beloved Commander, Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States of An ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 161 ness, but no other man has ever so combiner!the qualities of a great soldier and of pure,true, exalted Christian manhood and personalsweetness, gentleness and tenderness of charac-ter. General Lee fitly illustrates and justifies thebeautiful metaphor of a great orator, who said:Just as a certain great plant summons all itspowers and blooms once in a centur\, so themoral forces and graces and influences of everycentury find concre
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