the fact that, in accordance with the precept and example of the leader of the Confederate armies, they have been trained to be Americans. The survivors of the Confederate armies have just borne witness in Washington to their devotion to the flag of the united Nation. And we may dare hope that in the fires of the struggle in which we now engage will be consumed the last obstacle to a perfect union of hearts for all Americans. The book makes no claim to any great addition to the sum of knowledge in relation to Lee. It is in the main drawn from secondary sources, but a good deal of material touching upon Lee's life is included which appears in no other of his biographies. The works which have been chiefly relied upon are: Jones, Life and Letters of General Robert E. Lee; R. E. Lee, Jr., Recollections and Letters of General Lee; F. Lee, General Lee; Bradford, Lee, the American; Adams, Lee at Appomattox, and Dodge, Bird's-Eye View of the Civil War. Other works which were also of particular value are: Bruce, Robert E. Lee; Page, Robert E. Lee; Taylor, General Lee; Trent, Robert E. Lee; Pollard, Life and Times of Robert E. Lee; White, Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy; Fleming, Jefferson Davis at West Point; Long, Memoir of Robert E. Lee; and The Centennial History of West Point. In addition several hundred articles bearing on Lee s character and career have been studied carefully and material has been drawn from many of them. We are under obligations to the Reverend W. McC. White, of Raleigh, North Carolina, for unpublished illustrative material, and we desire to make particular and grateful acknowledgment of the assistance of Mr. Edwin Greenlaw, of the University of North Carolina, who read the manuscript and made many helpful suggestions. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. J. G. DE R. H. M. T. H. |