. Tom Strong, Lincoln's scout : a story of the United States in the times that tried men's souls. s Scout a portico upheld by many columns, one can looktowards Mt. Vernon, not many miles away, buthid from sight by clustering hills. The housewas built in 1802 by George Washington ParkeCustis, son of Washingtons stepson, who washis aide at Yorktown in 1783, and grandson ofMartha Washington. Parke Custis, who died in1858, directed in his will that his slaves shouldbe freed in five years. Lee, his son-in-law andexecutor, scrupulously freed them in 1863 andgave them passes through the Confederate l
. Tom Strong, Lincoln's scout : a story of the United States in the times that tried men's souls. s Scout a portico upheld by many columns, one can looktowards Mt. Vernon, not many miles away, buthid from sight by clustering hills. The housewas built in 1802 by George Washington ParkeCustis, son of Washingtons stepson, who washis aide at Yorktown in 1783, and grandson ofMartha Washington. Parke Custis, who died in1858, directed in his will that his slaves shouldbe freed in five years. Lee, his son-in-law andexecutor, scrupulously freed them in 1863 andgave them passes through the Confederate had already given freedom to his own before the war, he wrote from FortBrown, Texas, to his wife: In this enlight-ened age there are few, I believe, but willacknowledge that slavery as an institution, is amoral and political evil in any country. . .I think it is a greater evil to the white than theblack race. Robert E. Lee was one of the greatest fourVirginians. He ranks with George Washing-ton, George Mason, and Thomas Jefferson. Nopraise could be greater. When the Lost. Arlington Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. New York. Tom Strong, Lincolns Scout 199 Cause, as the Southerners fondly call theirgreat fight for what they believed to be right,reeled down to decisive defeat, the generalwhom they had worshiped in war proved him-self a great patriot in peace. His last years werepassed as President of Washington and LeeUniversity in Virginia. Long before his death,his name was honored by every fair-mindedman on the Northern as well as the Southernside of Mason and Dixons line. One of thenoblest eulogies of him was voiced upon thecentennial of his birth, January 9, 1907, at Wash-ington and Lee University, by Charles FrancisAdams. The best blood of Massachusetts hon-ored the best blood of Virginia. Our countrywas then again one country and all of it wasfree. Tom Strong was standing with a group ofother prisoners, all Northern officers, underguard, beside the Pr
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