Identifier: genrobertedwardl00broc (find matches)
Title: Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914
Subjects: Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Publisher: Richmond, Va., B. F. Johnson Publishing Co
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Fort Car-roll, near Baltimore. In 1852 he was made Superintendent of theUnited States Military Academy at West Point, where he spent thenext three years improving the drill, discipline and studies of theembryo army officers. In 1855 Robert Lee was called for the first time to commandsoldiers—his duties hitherto had been those of military engineer,astronomer or staff-officer. The Act of Congress directing that twonew cavalry regiments should be raised excited an ardent desire inthe officers of the army to receive appointments in them, and theybecame the corps dUite of the army. Lee was transferred from hisplace of engineer to the post of lieutenant-colonel in the SecondCavalry, of which Albert Sidney Johnston was the colonel in com-mand. The headquarters of the Second Cavalry were establishedat Louisville, Ky., where Lieutenant-Colonel Lee took command inApril, 1855. Subsequently he was transferred to Jefferson Barracks,in Missouri. In the latter part of the following year, 1856, the
Text Appearing After Image:
iKT E. LEE TIj; OF CHAPULTEPEC. (171) 173 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD EEE, regiment, under the command of Colonel Johnston, was transferredto western Texas, for frontier duty, and remained there for someyears. Lee does not again emerge into public notice until 1859.The excerpts from his letters, which here follow, are sufl&cientlyexplained by their dates, in conjunction with the foregoing. Under date of October 16, 1837, he thus writes from St. Louisto his wife: The improved condition of the children, which 3oumention, was a source of great comfort to me; and as I suppose^by this time, you have all returned to Arlington, you will be ableto put them under a proper restraint, which you were probablyobliged to relax while visiting among strangers, and which thatindulgence will probably render more essential. Our dear littleboy seems to have among his friends the reputation of being hardto manage—a distinction not at all desirable, as it indicates self-will and obstinacy. Perhaps these ar

Note About Images