Author : H. Snowden Marshall
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ISBN 13 : 9781331184348
Total Pages : 24 pages
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Book Synopsis Address Delivered at the Opening of the Building of the Confederate Memorial Institute at Richmond, Virginia, on May 3, 1921 (Classic Reprint) by : H. Snowden Marshall
Download or read book Address Delivered at the Opening of the Building of the Confederate Memorial Institute at Richmond, Virginia, on May 3, 1921 (Classic Reprint) written by H. Snowden Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Address Delivered at the Opening of the Building of the Confederate Memorial Institute at Richmond, Virginia, on May 3, 1921 Mr. President - Ladies and Gentlemen - Comrades of my father: When your distinguished President did me the great honour of asking me to address you today, he told me that the reason for asking me was that I was my father's son. My father served on the Staff of General Lee from about the time when General Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia throughout the war. My father was the Staff Officer who accompanied General Lee to meet General Grant at Appomattox. One of the duties which devolved upon my father, in connection with his work on General Lee's Staff, was to prepare reports of operations of the Confederate Army. He has told me a story about the first report that he prepared. He had seen deeds of stirring valour which moved him to the very depths of his soul. He prepared his first report and submitted it to General Lee for his examination. In this report he had described the things which he had seen and the things which he had known about, in terms of youthful enthusiasm; he had spoken of the resolute courage of our gallant troops; and had used other words of eulogy in various parts of his narrative. General Lee examined the report, and then took a pen and struck from it every adjective of a complimentary character which had been inserted in the report, leaving it a dry narrative of fact. He gave to my father one of those admonitions, which when they came from General Lee were never forgotten by any man: "State the facts about these operations without comment. If the facts deserve compliment or adulation, the world will give them; but it is not for you or me to pay compliments to our own people." Since I started to prepare my address for this occasion, I have had this story in mind. I have endeavoured to the best of my ability to strike out the characterizations which always spring to our minds when we think of these glorious days, and have tried to give the same treatment to my proposed remarks that General Lee gave to my father's report. I am not at all sure that I have succeeded, but I shall try to confine myself to bald statements of fact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
