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Title: 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 book..
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Chilton, Frank B., 1845- comp
Subjects: Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Brigade Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Infantry Regiment, 1st Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Infantry Regiment, 4th Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Infantry Regiment, 5th Hood's Texas Brigade Association United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: Houston, Tex., F. B. Chilton
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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aith are proud to do honorto his memorv. The author of a recent Life of Robert Ed-ward Ijce 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. * * * Xo rational mind for a moment questionsthe surj assing 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, Ijee as a husband,as a father, as a gentleman, as a Christian; Leeat his own fireside, at his family altar, in theliouse of prayer; Lee watching with tender and
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LAST .MEETING BETWEEN GEN. ROBERT E. LEE AND STONEWALL J. ACKSON 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 abandon tlieSouth in the hour of her calamity unless driveninto exile; Lee refusing emoluments, dignities,the allurements of corporate wealth, that homight devote his powers to repairing the wasteplaces. Such is the character that we have en-deavored to portray. This tribute was as eloquent as it is true. The South will never fail to commemoratethe anniversary of his birth. In some far off day, when Fame shall rearher Pantheon and bid each nation of the earthbring the image of that son who in grandeurof character and glory of achievement standspre-eminent in her annals, the South will comebringing her Lee, and will bid Fame match himif she can. HOW A GREAT MAN MET DEATH. (Houston Ch ronicle.) W

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