. The great American book of biography . give, and that I give ungrudgingly. In 1867, in company with his daughter Mildred, he rode on horseback to the Peaks of Otter,fifty miles from Lexington. At a ferryon the route theboatman chanced tobe an old the usualc h a r o- e was ten-dered, the roughmountaineers eyesfilled with tears, andhe shook his head,saying, I could nottake pay from you,Master Robert: 1have followed youin many a battle. Bitterness or re-sentment seemed tohave no place inGeneral Lees na-ture. When the fateof war went againsthim, he accepted its result in good faith,
. The great American book of biography . give, and that I give ungrudgingly. In 1867, in company with his daughter Mildred, he rode on horseback to the Peaks of Otter,fifty miles from Lexington. At a ferryon the route theboatman chanced tobe an old the usualc h a r o- e was ten-dered, the roughmountaineers eyesfilled with tears, andhe shook his head,saying, I could nottake pay from you,Master Robert: 1have followed youin many a battle. Bitterness or re-sentment seemed tohave no place inGeneral Lees na-ture. When the fateof war went againsthim, he accepted its result in good faith,and thenceforwarddid his best to re-store good feelingbetween the Northand the South. Eventoward men who the most in-tense bitternessagainst him heseemed to have no other feeling than kindness and good-will. This wasthe case even with those who sought to have him tried and punished fortreason. During the war it was noticeable that he never spoke of the Unionsoldiers as Yankees, the common expression in the Southern army. They. : LEE AND THE LMuN SOLDIER. SCENE AFTER GETTYSBURG. 365 were always mentioned as Federals, or the enemy. He regretted andcondemned the harsh and bitter langruatre which characterized the Southernnewspapers. Is it any wonder, he said, that Northern journals should retortas they do, when those in the South employ such language against them? LEE AND THE UNION SOLDIER. A touching stor}, illustrating this noble trait of General Lees character,was told years after the war by a Union veteran who was viewing the greatpanorama, The Battle of Gettysburg. He said, I was at the battle ofGettysburg myself I had been a most bitter anti-South man. and fought andcursed the Confederates desperately. I could see nothing good in any of last day of the fight I was badly wounded. A ball shattered my left lay on the ground not far from Cemetery Ridge, and as General Lee orderedhis retreat, he and his officers rode near me. As they came along I recogni
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