. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. id not care so much for, but it was terrible to think ofthe women and children. ... I heard from Smith to-day; heis quite well and recovered from his fatigue. The younger daughter, Mildred, married Edward Vernon Childe,of Massachusetts, who removed to and lived in Paris, where shedied. Their eldest son, Edward Lee Childe, wrote a life in Frenchof his uncle, Robert E. Lee. The elder daughter, Anne, married Judge William Marshall,who took sides with the Union when the war broke out; and theironly son, educated at West Point, rema
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. id not care so much for, but it was terrible to think ofthe women and children. ... I heard from Smith to-day; heis quite well and recovered from his fatigue. The younger daughter, Mildred, married Edward Vernon Childe,of Massachusetts, who removed to and lived in Paris, where shedied. Their eldest son, Edward Lee Childe, wrote a life in Frenchof his uncle, Robert E. Lee. The elder daughter, Anne, married Judge William Marshall,who took sides with the Union when the war broke out; and theironly son, educated at West Point, remained in the army of theUnited States. Of course the wifes sympathies during the strugglewei-e bound to be with her husband and child. Yet, tortured withconflicting emotions, while joining with her husband in the hopethat the Federal armies would gain victories, she would in the endannihilate all her previous expressions by shaking her head andsaying : But, after all, they cant whip Robert! * * General Lee, b_v Fitzhugh Lee. D. Appleton & Co., New York, A GLIMPSE OF DUNGENESS. A Famous Southern Homestead and the Burial Place of Light-Horse Harry Lee. By Frederick A. Ober. Pathetic picture: a Revolutionary hero, self-exiled, solitary; anAmerican Ulysses, wandering for years in the West Indies, andreturning to his native land only to die. This was the fate of Light-Horse Harry Lee, Washingtons best-beloved, who pronounced thatmost terse and glowing panegyric: First in War, First in Peace,First in the Hearts of his Fellow-Countrymen. From Santo Domingo to the Bahamas, through that historicchain of islands made memorable by the discoveries of Columbus,and resting awhile at Nassau, General Henry Lee vainly pursuedthat ignis-fahms of returning health and strength. At last, per-ceiving the futility of longer battling against the fates, he tookpassage in a vessel for the United States. In the month of Janu-ary, 1818, a small schooner might have been seen skirting theeastern coast
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