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dignity as impressive as that of Washington, yet not so cold; of habits as pure, more warmly religious; with a calm, confident, kindly manner that no disaster could change. Wishing every one to remain faithful to the old traditions of the South in all that pertained to honor, virtue and hospitality, yet he set himself to work to root up those animosities and provincial rivalries which led only to ruin."

Such were the Lees of Virginia whose names head this article,-Henry Lee, the father; and Robert E. Lee, the son. As they made themselves glorious by their deeds, History has made them glorious by her words, and they

"Are Freedom's now, and Fame's;

Among the few, the immortal names,
That were not born to die."

The South claims them as her own, and proudly says of each of them, as a duke of Ormonde said of an earl of Ossory, "I would not exchange my dead son for any living son in the world." I commend the study of their lives and of our country's history to the millions of uninformed and misinformed people of the North.1

Montgomery, Ala., March, 1891.

1. When a pirating Boston publisher appropriated the book issued by Prof. George Long, of London, entitled "The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus," he inserted in his issue a dedication to Gen. Grant, who was then President. Prof. Long took a Londoner's view of the piracy and dedication and attached a note to the next edition of the work, printed in London, in which he said:

"I might dedicate the book to the successful general who is now the President of the United States, with the hope that his integrity and justice

will restore peace and happiness, so far as he can, to those unhappy States which have suffered so much from war and the unrelenting hostility of wicked men. But, as the Roman poet said, 'Victrix causa Deis placuit, sed victa Catoni:' and if I dedicated this little book to any man I would dedicate it to him who led the Confederate armies against the powerful invader, and retired from an unequal contest defeated, but not dishonored; to the noble Virginian soldier, whose talents and virtues place him by the side of the best and wisest man who sat on the throne of the Imperial Caesars."

THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.

What is called the Spanish-American war occurred seven years after the foregoing articles were written. It was not much of a war, not as many men being killed in the entire war, so-called, as were killed in any one of many of the small battles of the war between the States; and the United States, as a nation, has little to boast of in connection with it; but, such as it was, the South-the much maligned, deeply wronged South, suffering still and doomed to suffer through many long years to come from the ravages of a bitter and cruel war of destruction and a yet more bitter and heartless war of reconstruction, that left her prostrate and bleeding at every pore-was promptly at the front, as usual, with more than her quota, maintaining her old-time record and precedence in deeds of heroism under the very flag that but a little while before had waved in triumph over her awful agony. That's the South.

It was Wheeler, of Alabama-Georgian by birth, and a lieutenant-general of the Confederate army— who, quitting a seat in Congress at the age of 62, was among the first to be mustered in as a majorgeneral of the volunteer army of the United States in the Spanish-American war. Let Northern witnesses bear further testimony of him:

"I am sorry," said Mr. Dolliver, of Iowa, in a speech in Congress in January, 1899, "I am sorry that I do not see in his seat our old friend from Alabama, General Wheeler. I have served with him in this House for ten years, a large part of that time sitting with him on the same committee, and I have learned to look upon the old soldier with a filial affection. I did my best to persuade him against going into the Cuban campaign. I tried to get him to see that his duty was here in the House of Representatives, leaving to the younger generation the dangers and diseases of the field and the camp; but the old man said he must go. He weighed only 98 pounds, and he said he could ride a horse all day without tiring the horse. So he went down there and bore the part of a patriot and a soldier.

"At the time of the attack upon Santiago he was sick and unable to leave his tent, but when he heard the firing he got into an ambulance and started for the front. When he met details of men carrying the wounded to the rear he told the boys to let the wounded ride, and asked them to get him out of the ambulance and put him upon his horse; and all day long on the firing line at Santiago he kept the field, directing the movement of his troops."

Said the Public Ledger, of Philadelphia (March 20, 1899,): "All observant readers of official and other reports on the Santiago campaign will recognize the truth of Governor Roosevelt's remark that 'General Wheeler was the backbone of the campaign.'" The

Ledger's remarks had reference to the well known fact that General Wheeler persistently opposed the retreat of the army that was contemplated by its commanding general just before the Santiago fight.

It was Richmond P. Hobson, of Alabama, who performed the exploit of which Julian Hawthorne (a Northern historian) says: "On June 3d a deed was done which immediately took its place as the most daring and brilliant of the war, and one of the most heroic ever planned and executed in naval history.

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"It all seems like a chapter of romance by Stevenson or Cooper.

"Was ever fairy tale more wonderful? The matter-of-fact, prosaic Nineteenth Century vanishes as we read, and the great days of classic heroism are with

us once more.

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"One might almost say that this exploit marked the crisis of the war.'

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It was Worth Bagley, of North Carolina, who was the first officer of the American navy to fall in that war-slain on the deck of his boat by a shell from a hidden shore battery whose fire he was daringly endeavoring to draw.

First to shed his blood on Cuban soil was John Blair Gibbs, a Virginian, who was a physician in the city of New York, with a practice worth $10,000 a year, which he gave up to serve as surgeon in the navy during the war; and he was the first physician in that city to enlist for that war in the medical corps

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