. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. y instinct and training, a hero of twowars, he enjoyed through the greater part of his life the distinctionwith which a people of romantic tendencies are prone to invest menwhom they admire. The warm temperament that came from hisCreole origin endowed him with qualities that made him a leader tobe followed blindly, and his high attainment in the line of his pro-fession commanded widespread respect for him. His name sounded through the North as well as in his ownsection when the war began, for he ordered the first gun fired onSu
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. y instinct and training, a hero of twowars, he enjoyed through the greater part of his life the distinctionwith which a people of romantic tendencies are prone to invest menwhom they admire. The warm temperament that came from hisCreole origin endowed him with qualities that made him a leader tobe followed blindly, and his high attainment in the line of his pro-fession commanded widespread respect for him. His name sounded through the North as well as in his ownsection when the war began, for he ordered the first gun fired onSumter, and he led the victors at Bull Run. Thereafter, althoughnot in chief command, he played an active part in the war, so distin-guishing himself that his services were in request to take commandof foreign armies in Roumania and Egypt. Of late years his peopleheld him in honor as the last survivor of the great generals ofthe war. General Beauregard died at New Orleans on February 20th,1893, from a complication of diseases.— Confederate War Journal^May, GENERAL BRAXTON BRAGG (S62) GENERAL BRAXTON BRAGG. Born in Warren County, N. C, in 1S17; entered West PointMilitary Academy, and graduated with high honors in 1837. Hewas immediately appointed lieutenant of artillery, and servedmainly in Florida until 1S38, when he engaged in conveying theremnant of the Cherokee tribe of Indians to their new reservationin the Indian Territory. From 1843 to 1845 he had command ofFort INIoultrie, in Charleston harbor, and in 1846 joined in themilitary occupation of Texas. In May, 1846, he was made captainby brevet, and in June was made captain of artillery in thearmy of occupation of Texas, which, under General Taylor, hadcrossed the Rio Grande and occupied Matamoras, and advancedon Monterey, Mexico, September 21st, 1846, where Bragg displayedconspicuous bravery, and arrested the attention of the commandinggeneral, whose brief o^der, A little more grape. Captain Bragg,became a rallying c
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