. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. e loftiness of each nature. A very modest girl who had never before seen General Leetraveled with him down the river one day just after the war. Shewas emotional, and the sight of him overpowered her. She didnot think he noticed her, but he did. They were both going toget off at the same landing, and he spoke to her and wanted toknow if she were well wrapt up, saying that young girls were soapt to catch cold. She had her modest wardrobe in an old-fashioned bandbox studded with brass nails, and he observed that,too. What a quain
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. e loftiness of each nature. A very modest girl who had never before seen General Leetraveled with him down the river one day just after the war. Shewas emotional, and the sight of him overpowered her. She didnot think he noticed her, but he did. They were both going toget off at the same landing, and he spoke to her and wanted toknow if she were well wrapt up, saying that young girls were soapt to catch cold. She had her modest wardrobe in an old-fashioned bandbox studded with brass nails, and he observed that,too. What a quaint little box! he said ; I like it so much—dont you? And a homely trunk was at once glorified, and agirls tiresome journey brightened with an impression which shewill ever hold. SOLDIER, CITIZEN AND CHRISTIAN PATRIOT. 343 The day the Lees left Richmond after the evacuation theGeneral went out to say good-bye to somebody who could not cometo him. As he walked up Franklin Street he saw a lady standingon the pavement by a pile of trunks. She explained that she was. INTERIOR OF ST. PAUL S, RICHMOND, SHOWING THE PEW. in a terrible dilemma—she had locked her bonnet in one of thetrunks, and could not find one thing to wear on her head. Get it out, said the General. How could I undo or tie up these dreadful trunks ? sheasked. 344 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD EEE, Oh, I can do that, lie answered as he stooped down, and, ina matchless dignity which exalted the meanest act, he untied thetrunks and did them up again with war time rope, not withleather and buckles of the present day. Friends of Mrs. Lee remember her as she sat in the cabin ofthe old canal boat saying good-bye, with now and then a catch inher voice, to those who had been near her for several years. Shereturned to Richmond once afterward, on her way to the WhiteHouse. She then sat again in the cabin of the canal boat andheld a big reception. So many people brought her flowers that tubswere set around to hold them, and the sh
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