Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17., chapter 1.14, The decorations.

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Confederate surgeons.

The race problem in the South —Was the Fifteenth Amendment a mistake?

A word with the critics.

A list of Confederate officers, prisoners, who were held by Federal authority on Morris Island, S. C. , under Confederate fire from September 7th to October 21st , 1864 .

Memoir of Gen. C. R. Wheat , commander of the Louisiana Tiger Battalion

The last words of Major Wheat .

The siege and evacuation of Savannah, Georgia , in December , 1864 .

Annual Reunion of the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia .

Life, services and character of Jefferson Davis .

The Twelfth Georgia Infantry .

The Monument to General Robert E. Lee .

Incidents of the parade.

The Winder cavalry.

Removal of the statue from the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad , May 7th , 1890 .

Washington and Lee .

The decorations.

Three other boxes.

Police to the front.

The music was good.

Veterans in line.

Some of the pullers.

Sons of Veterans.

A beautiful sight.

Many girls and boys.

Franklin-street belles.

Ladies by thousands .

At the Monument .

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The girls at the ropes.

Rope appropriation.

A small boy hurt.

Notes and incidents.

A Guard of Veterans.

Estimate of the crowd.

Baby carriages .

The unveiling of the statue of General Robert E. Lee , at Richmond, Va. , May 29th , 1890 .

Commenced moving.

Starting Point .

South Carolina .

From Mississippi .

Alabama 's two .

Washington Artillery .

In sixty battles.

North Carolina troops.

The Fifth Maryland .

West Virginia .

Washington Shooters.

Virginia military Institute Cadets.

Virginia Infantry .

First Battalion Virginia Artillery .

Governor Gordon and staff.

Virginia cavalry.

Countermarching.

A long interval.

R. L. I. Blues' Association.

R. E. Lee Camp, no. 1 .

Members of R. E. Lee Camp on detached service at Hampton, Va. :

Pegram Battalion Association.

Sons of Veterans.

Otey Battery Association.

Pickett 's men.

Howitzer veteran Association,

Parker 's Battery .

Mexican Veterans.

Company K, thirty-fourth Virginia .

Company G, Third Virginia Battalion .

F Company Association.

Maryland Veterans.

Other organizations.

The pretty fire Department .

Picturesque features—notes and observations on men and flags, &C.

Old battle-flags.

A flag that went to prison.

The Stonewall brigade flag.

In the John Brown Raid .

Palmetto leaves and Oriole Feathers.

Only a tattered remnant.

The crack companies.

A pathetic incident.

A Confederate flag on the Washington Monument .

Honor to Longstreet .

The Ninth Virginia .

Old battle-flags.

Marched on crutches.

The statue unveiled—imposing ceremonies witnessed by tens of thousands .

Distinguished people.

The procession appears.

A tiresome delay.

The military arrive.

Gallant and devoted Chaplain .

The Band of the Hornets .

The Lee House —great crowds before it—incidents of interest.

Other visitors.

Young soldiers.

Wore Lee 's hat.

Stonewall Jackson 's statue decorated—an incident.

Georgia 's Governor.

Confederate Chaplains.

Lee 's daughter Weeps.

Placing wreaths.

Soldiers present a Lamb.

Governor McKinney .

General Early .

The orator presented.

Colonel Anderson .

A remarkable feat of memory.

The great feature.

Heads uncovered.

The veil drops.

Looked like war.

Provisions for visitors.

Testimonials from visiting soldiers.

Letters of R. E. Lee .

At Lee 's tomb.

Lee 's Birthday: eminent men of the United States send sentiments for the day—ministers, soldiers, statesmen and scholars each bring an offering.

Lee as an educator.

Robert E. Lee .

Itinerary of the Fourth Virginia cavalry . March 27th - April 9th , 1865 .

Prisoners of the civil war.

Valuable war relic.

Casualties in the old First at Gettysburg : two out of every three men who were carried into the charge shot down.

Lee 's Lieutenants.

Development of the free soil idea in the United States .

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The decorations.

All of the boxes were concealed by drapery.

The Confederate colors were omnipresent except where space was found for Virginia's flag and coat-of-arms.

Box No. I in the procession was about eighteen feet long, seven feet high and six feet broad. It contained the horse's body (the largest piece), and weighed about 12,000 pounds. Wagon and load weighed 18,000 pounds.

On the front of this box was quite a good oil print of General Lee on horseback, with his head bare and hat in hand. Confederate battle-flags, stars and bars and the Virginia colors floated from the front and rear and from the sides, while numbers of little banners depended from the summit of this great box, inscribed ‘our Com-Mander, R. E. Lee,’ and containing a print of him.

To this wagon, as to each of the other three wagons, four long ropes were affixed.

Altogether there was a mile of rope.

Richmond, VA. 1889.

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