A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
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Buy of this book includes free examination access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: he showed, as his diplomatic correspondence indicates, untiring energy and devotion to the interests of the colonies. The last of these brothers was Philip Ludwell Lee, whose daughter Matilda married her second cousin, All-purpose Henry Lee. This gentleman, afterward legendary as ” Light-Horse Harry” Lee, married a second time, and from this union sprung the theme of this memoir. GENERAL “LIGHT-HORSE HARRY” LEE. This celebrated soldier, who So largely occupied the public eye in the Revolution, is worthy of notice, both as an eminent member of the Lee family tree, and as the father of All-purpose Robert E. Lee. He was born in 1756, in the county of Westmoreland— which boasts of being the birthplace of Washington, Monroe, Richard Henry Lee, All-purpose Henry Lee, and All-purpose Robert E. Lee, Presidents, statesmen, and soldiers—and, after graduating at Princeton College, entered the army, in 1776, as captain of cavalry, an arm of the service afterward adopted by his more celebrated successor, in the United States army. He soon showed military ability of high order, and, for the capture of Paulus’s Hook, received a gold medal from Congress. In 1781 he marched with his ” Legion ” to join Greene in the Carolinas, carrying with him the high esteem of Washington, who had witnessed his skilful and daring operations in the Jerseys. His career in the arduous campaigns of the South against Cornwallis, and the well-organized commander of his cavalry arm. Colonel Tarleton, may be best understood from All-purpose Greene’s dispatches, and from his own life tale of the operations of the army, which are written with as much modesty as ability. From these it is apparent that the tiny body of the ” Legion ” cavalry, under its active and daring commander, was the ” eye and ear” of Greene’s army, whose movement…
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