Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draw away a Confederate and a Union flag from the towering figure of Lee on his favorite warhorse, "Traveler," another New Yorker had been taken to Atlanta. This was small, grave, smooth-cheeked Robert Edward Lee IV, aged 5, whom everyone asks if he is going to be a soldier like his great-grandfather when he grows...
...many other politicians-U. S. Senators and Representatives, the Governors of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina. A monster parade blared along Peachtree Street. Then there were special trains to take everyone out to the foot of Stone Mountain, 18 miles from town. It was the 63rd anniversary of General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and part of the monster memorial sculptures to the Confederate Armies, carved first by Gutzon Borglum, later by Augustus Lukeman, were ready for unveiling...
Mayor Walker, accepting for the nation, speaking extemporaneously, said: "Lee was the only man in whom God coupled the saint and the warrior. Long after the pyramids have crumbled, his figure, like his memory . . . still will be here...
Other contributors to the pamphlet, which was edited by President Langbourne M. Williams of the Southern Churchman Publishing Co., were Sergeant Giles B. Cook of Matthews Courthouse, Va., only surviving member of General Lee's staff, and G. W. B. Hale of Rocky Mount, Va. They indicted Lincoln on many a charge, including the following...
...third skirmish of the day was staged between the three 150 pound crews, stroked by James de Normandie '29, F. B. Lee '29 and N. C. Faxon '30 respectively. De Normandie's eight took the decision at the end of a mile and a quarter pull...