. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . nder Lees presidency; and, onone occasion, delivered as a college exercise an oration witheulogistic reference to the Lost Cause, and what it , General, then President, Lee sent for the student; and,after praising his composition and delivery, seriously warnedhim against holding or advancing such views, impressingstrongly upon him the unity of the Nation, and urging him todevote himself loyally to maintain the integrity and the honorof the United States. The kindly paternal advice thus givenwas, I imagine, typical of his
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . nder Lees presidency; and, onone occasion, delivered as a college exercise an oration witheulogistic reference to the Lost Cause, and what it , General, then President, Lee sent for the student; and,after praising his composition and delivery, seriously warnedhim against holding or advancing such views, impressingstrongly upon him the unity of the Nation, and urging him todevote himself loyally to maintain the integrity and the honorof the United States. The kindly paternal advice thus givenwas, I imagine, typical of his whole post-bellum life. Let thisone anecdote suffice. Here was magnanimity, philosophy, truepatriotism: the pure American spirit. Accepting the situationloyally and in a manly, silent way,—without self-consciousnessor mental reservation,—he sought by precept, and yet more bya great example, to build up the shattered community of whichhe was the most observed representative in accordance with thenew conditions imposed by fate. Charles Francis Adams.;i30]. IV SCENES FROM SOLDIER LIFE
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