APPRECIATIONS OF ROBERT EDWARD LEE

APPRECIATIONS OF ROBERT EDWARD LEE

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A 1931 softcover booklet published by the Shenandoah Publishing House of Strasburg, Virginia, pairing two commemorative addresses on the life and memory of Robert Edward Lee. Tan printed wrappers, approximately 5 x 7 1/2 inches, 84 pages.

The volume opens with the full text of "An Oration," delivered by John Warwick Daniel, LL.D., at the unveiling of the Recumbent Figure of General Robert Edward Lee and the dedication of the Lee Mausoleum at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, on June 28, 1883. The statue, sculpted by Edward Valentine and commissioned by the Lee Memorial Association, remains installed today in the University Chapel (formerly Lee Chapel), above the crypt containing Lee's remains. Daniel, a former Confederate artillery officer who lost a leg at the Wilderness, delivered the address as the ceremony's principal orator; he went on to serve Virginia in the U.S. Senate from 1887 until his death in 1910. His three-hour oration was widely reprinted and did much to cement Lee's postwar image as a figure of near-sacred reverence in the South.

The second piece is "An Address" delivered at Washington and Lee University by Robert Gray Williams on January 19, 1931, on Founders' Day, marking Lee's birthday and his long tenure as the university's president following the Civil War.

Condition: light edge and corner wear to the wrappers, with scattered foxing consistent with age; text and title pages clean and legible throughout. Copyright page dates the booklet to 1931.  [ss][ph:L]

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