Show S I Just J I By Albert F F. F fl To 10 any person who ha has stood the tho point at Arlington where Oli 0 01 Glory files fles from the flagstaff an takes fakes in the sweep of or hill and aley a aX ley hey and river takes in the m rAl mag natural iba Bat which there hero is none more M which Is spread before him II mind will go back bark to the long lons JJ before beautiful Arlington ton was laid out out long long before the theof to toot of ot the unknown soldier moldier was vaa c er ered erect erected ct ed long before the thousands headstones marked the graves grave those who died In tho the catS cau causo S Sand and ho he can cnn t say that ah'S n General Robert nobert E B Lee who wi wa was t commander In chief of ot the crate erato arm army left heft his ll old to lead the tIme Confederate army In 11 t tSI long civil war that he waa was a f ate by what he believed beHoved was right n I that ho believed that In s so do doii n his hla country the South would tho the end triumph For h he ga gahi gate u hi his magnificent home to th the 10 which had educated hj hI and made him what hat he was was was-s aTaS 10 dier At the beginning of ot th the my I mythis this homestead homestead of ot General le Let te w t seized by the Union forces later In 1864 was purchased the government at tax sale lIale fo for t I Isum of 26 sum and Arlington cem CI e ter tery which contains ac f fand and where now sleep sheep the tho long III J soldiers who gave up th f lives hives that the Union mIght fh was as platted and laid out bl t government Later on th the tax lib r to the government go was cent contest but was barred from the sup i court and congress a athe the sum of for tor the he heirs 4 Friday was the anniversary of t death of Robert B E Lee hIs his p ping ing being on October 12 1870 iJ one one- onetime time he was declared by j general In In- command of ot the arm the tho United States Winfield j Be to 10 be the tho greatest living sel 1101 gold I in America This was at th cl of the tho Mexican war In which a earned promotion for feats oUr courage at Cerro Gordo Gord Ch I and Chapultepec Chapultepee ji tI He became superintendent ot ofT ti West Vest Point military academy 1852 During a visit to Ily in 1859 ho he commanded the tho which suppressed the tho John Bro Bri I raid S m General Lee was as opposed to told union gave ga e his slaves their fre freed dt if and regarded slavery as a am amand mo m and political evil In any count count coun countIn j In n a letter to his son he j 1 the Union Is dissolved and th th disrupted I shall r ret t 1 to my ray native state and share miseries of and f my people sat sa defense will draw my sword 1 none Yet he believed hIs 1 I pie 10 had been wronged and beta bet hei a a. states state's s rights man manfor f tor or he 1 fj that he would defend It If it Inva inv S SOn On April 18 1861 Frank PA PAOn H Hon on behalf of President Lincoln him command of thelA B Bof of ot the United States lie He 4 the tender sayIng pose secession and deprecate deprecate I could tike take no part In an art Inv my of the Southern states AT S1 a j when Lincoln called for tor troops became commander of the Vir till g troops strong and an after rw be became beame me the commander In chi chU j the Confederate forces ft y yAt lit At the head of ot lost his best support when S u. u wall wan Jackson was killed At G Gd t ill y burg the battle of ot which began H expectedly when a collision JL II curved currel between the If rt and the head of or Hill a division m met t such a defeat that had followed up then as modern tory has disclosed the have ended long before It d General Lee Lees Lee's s life lite was h His a military one It f through made West Vest Point was drew Jackson in 1825 and wh graduated in 1829 he hein ii l' l lin r rIn in his class He lIe lIeas was as Ise 14 Mary Iary Park Parle Custis In 1831 she So great granddaughter of oC Mi 1 a a. Washington He lIe ranked aa b s greatest Southern com command g r rafter after the surrender at athe he urged his people to result of ot the war He was wasi in m. m magnanimous ed as I t. t |