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Excerpt from An Address: Delivered Under the Auspices of the Johnston Pettigrew Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, in the Hall of the House of Representatives, Raleigh, N. C Ladies of the Johnston Pettigrew Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy: The grateful duty you bid me perform is one which involves the portraiture of a man whose character presents no blemish to mar its symmetry, whose life leaves no apology to be made to men for any act of his in all its course, whose example serves to make patriots and soldiers and gentlemen in all future generations. In the range of biography, when one looks for an ensample of pure patriotism, the devotion of self to country, the seeker instinctively turns the pages until he comes to the name of Robert Lee. When lecturers in War Colleges all over the world offer ideals of soldierly accomplishment, by common consent the campaigns of General Lee afford the most splendid illustrations of military genius. The writer, the lecturer, the preacher, the teacher, each in his presentation of the perfect gentleman, finds his culmination in this peerless Chevalier, who, being dead, still stands before the world "without fear and without reproach." He came of a strain of knights and noblemen who followed William the Conqueror from the continent, enriching the Anglo Saxon with pure Norman blood. Each branch of the distinguished family which bears his name in England claims him as its own. He was born in the halls of his fathers at Stratford, in old Westmoreland, out of whose loins sprang patriots, warriors, statesmen like Washington, Madison, Monroe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.