This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ... time to visit Cumberland Island, and Dungeness, the family estate of the Greenes, descendants of Nathanael Greene of Revolutionary fame. It was in the luxuriant garden of Dungeness that the body of General Lee's father, "Light Horse Harry" Lee, had been buried many years before. General Lee records that many of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ... time to visit Cumberland Island, and Dungeness, the family estate of the Greenes, descendants of Nathanael Greene of Revolutionary fame. It was in the luxuriant garden of Dungeness that the body of General Lee's father, "Light Horse Harry" Lee, had been buried many years before. General Lee records that many of the Greene family had recently gone into the interior of Georgia, doubtless to some place which was less exposed in case of attack by Federal troops. One of his sons, William H. F. Lee, was now married; and a letter which we have from Lee to his new daughter-in-law, Charlotte, of whom he was very fond, is interesting as containing a delicate thread of deference mingled with its badinage, which would not have quite fitted into a letter to his own children. In part the letter runs as follows: You have no occasion to inform me, you precious Chass he often gave nicknames to people whom he loved and greatly trusted, but to few others, that you have not written to me for a long time. That I already knew, and you know that the letters I am obliged to write do not prevent my reading letters from you. My proposition to you was that you should accompany your mamma to Fayetteville, and not run off with her son to Fredericksburg. I am afraid the enemy will catch you; besides, there are too many young men there. I only want you to visit the old men, your grandpapa and papa. But what has got into your heads to cause you to cut off of them your hair? If you will weave some delicate fabrics for the soldiers of the family out of it I will be content with the sacrifice. Or, if it is an expression of a penitential mood which has come over you young women I shall not complain. Poor little Annie! Some one told me that a widower had been making eyes at her, thr...
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