Robert ELee and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870 . an plantations andtheir adherent servants, Arlington itself and theWhite House farms on the Pamunkey River. Thissame year, 1831, saw the beginning of the Abo-litionist assault, under Garrisons leadership, againstthe institution of slavery in the Southern Custis himself was a believer in gradual emanci-pation, and left provision in his will that his servantsshould become freedmen a certain number of yearsafter his own demise. As executor, Robert E. Leecarried out that provision to the very letter, and, in1862, sent these manumitte
Robert ELee and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870 . an plantations andtheir adherent servants, Arlington itself and theWhite House farms on the Pamunkey River. Thissame year, 1831, saw the beginning of the Abo-litionist assault, under Garrisons leadership, againstthe institution of slavery in the Southern Custis himself was a believer in gradual emanci-pation, and left provision in his will that his servantsshould become freedmen a certain number of yearsafter his own demise. As executor, Robert E. Leecarried out that provision to the very letter, and, in1862, sent these manumitted servants with passesthrough his own military lines into the NorthernStates. Throughout life he was the gentlest andmost indulgent of masters to his African are told that one of the earliest duties laidupon himself by the young commissioned ofificerwas to take his mothers negro coachman, a con-sumptive, to the mild climate of Georgia, and thereto provide tender nursing until the end came. From 1829 until the outbreak of the Mexican War. ARMS OF LEE OF COTON HALL, COUNTY SALOP, ENGLAND- 18341 Early Service in the Army. 29 in 1846, Lcc passed his days in the quiet laboursthat fall to the lot of an army engineer. When welook into the details of his work and the faithfulnessshown in its performance, we see the growing great-ness of the man. Devotion to his public duties wasthe foremost characteristic of the official; strongaffection for his family shone in all his words anddeeds. The care and exactness of the early school-days marked his attention to the minute and seem-ingly unessential parts of his labour. He lovedchildren and young people; he was modest and un-affected in forming estimates of his own quiet humour and hidden satire gave zest andcolouring to his correspondence and familiar inter-course with friends. Until 1834, Lee remained at Hampton , as assistant to the chief engineer of the army,he was busy with of^fice-work in Washington unt
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