NOTE C.
No book bearing "Virginia" upon its title-page should fail in tribute
to two of her noble sons, whose names, though glittering on the roll of
honor, do not find place among her Chief Executives—Robert E. Lee and
"Stonewall Jackson"—those bright, resplendent forms, who, standing by
their Mother State, her garments crimson with the blood of battle, have
linked their fame imperishably with her history.
ROBERT EDWARD LEE,
BORN
At "Stratford," Westmoreland County, Virginia,
January 19, 1807,
DIED
At Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia,
October 12, 1870.
THOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON,
BORN
At Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia,
January 21, 1824,
DIED
Of wounds received at Chancellorsville, Virginia,
May 10, 1863.
Eloquence, rhetoric, poetry, sculpture, painting, tears—every avenue
through which the mind and heart can give expression, has been exhausted
in paying honor to these renowned men. Great in war were both—great
in a soldier's death the one, and great in conquering fate, the other.
Enshrined forever are they in the faithful hearts of the devoted people
each loved and served "unto life's end."
