. Unveiling and dedication of monument to Hood's Texas brigade on the capitol grounds at Austin, Texas, Thursday, October twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and ten, and minutes of the thirty-ninth annual reunion of Hood's Texas brigade association held in Senate chamber at Austin, Texas, October twenty-six and twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and ten, together with a short monument and brigade association history and Confederate scrap . faith are proud to do honorto his memory. The author of a recent Life of Robert Ed-ward Lee pays him this splendid tribute, andit would be useless to attempt
. Unveiling and dedication of monument to Hood's Texas brigade on the capitol grounds at Austin, Texas, Thursday, October twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and ten, and minutes of the thirty-ninth annual reunion of Hood's Texas brigade association held in Senate chamber at Austin, Texas, October twenty-six and twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and ten, together with a short monument and brigade association history and Confederate scrap . faith are proud to do honorto his memory. The author of a recent Life of Robert Ed-ward Lee pays him this splendid tribute, andit would be useless to attempt to say anythingto surpass it:— It is the fiery furnace of adversity, seventimes heated, which constitutes the final and irrevocable criterion of ideal greatness, and esti-mated by this standard of determination, Leeis the sovereign hero of all the ages. * * » No rational mind for a moment questionsthe surpassing soldierly greatness of Lee. Eulo-gy cannot add to its luster, detraction cannotimpair it, even malice and envy have ceasedto assail his pre-eminence. We have striven to portray the man in theseseveral enduring and exalted relations ordainedof God which reveal in its richest fullness orits intensest significance the inner life of thehuman spirit: in other words, Lee as a husband,as a father, as a gentleman, a?; a Christian; Leeat bis own fireside, at his family altar, in thehouse of prayer; Ijce watching with tender and. LAST MEETING BETWEEN GEN. ROBERT E. LEE AND STONEWALL JACKSON ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 157 unfailing care his honored wife, the Mary Cus-tis of his dawning manhood, commemoratingtheir wedding day amid the carnage that mark-ed the long-drawn siege of Petersburg; Leeavowing his purpose never to altandon theSouth in the hour of her calamity unless driveninto exile; Lee refusing emoluments, dignities,the allurements of corporate wealth, that hemight devote his powers to repairing the wasteplaces. Such is the character that we have en-deavored to portray.
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