The death of General Lee, on October 12, 1870, brought forth more encomiums from the press, personages of exalted rank, and from the people generally than has ever been accorded any man who died in private life since Washington. “I do not exaggerate,” says Dr. Jones, “when I say that many volumes would not contain the eulogies that were pronounced, for I undertook to make a partial collection of them and have a trunk full now.” In the cemetery near him at Lexington bivouacs his great lieutenant, Stonewall Jackson. They were born in the same month, the one on the nineteenth and the other on the thirty-first of January. It is fitting that they should lie near together. “I know not,” further and most fittingly continues Mr. Jones, who was chaplain of the University, “how more appropriately the tomb of Lee could be placed. The blue mountains of his loved Virginia sentinel his grave. Young men from every section throng the classic shades of Washington and Lee University, and delight to keep ward and watch at his tomb.” [Illustration: MERCIE’S MONUMENT, LEE CIRCLE, RICHMOND] I sing the hymn of the Conquered who fell in the battle of life, The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife; Not the jubilant song of the Victors for whom the resounding acclaim Of nations was lifted in chorus, whose brows wore the chaplet of fame. While the voice of the world shouts its chorus, its paeans for those who have won, While the trumpet is sounding triumphant, and high to the breeze and the sun Gay banners are waving, hands clapping and hurrying feet Throwing after the laurel-crowned victors, I stand on the field of Defeat. Speak, History! Who are Life’s victors? Unroll thy long annals and say; Are they those whom the world called the victors, who won the success of a day? The Martyrs or Nero? The Spartans who fell at Thermopylae’s tryst, Or the Persians and Xerxes? His judge or Socrates? Pilate or Christ? —_W. W. Story._ [1] Popular Life of General Lee. By Emily V. Mason. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co. [2] General Lee. By Fitzhugh Lee. New York: D. Appleton & Co. (Great Commanders Series.) [3] Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee. By Rev. J. William Jones, D.D. New York and Washington: Neale Publishing Company. [4] Recollections of My Father. By Captain Robert E. Lee. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. [5] General Lee. General Viscount Wolseley. Rochester, N. Y.: George P. Humphrey. [6] Four Years under Marse Robert. By Major Robert Stiles. New York and Washington: Neale Publishing Company. [7] Gettysburg: A Battle Ode Descriptive of the Grand Charge of the Third Day, July 3, 1863. By R. W. Douthat. New York and Washington: Neale Publishing Company. [8] Memoirs of Robert E. Lee: His Military and Personal History. By General A. L. Long and General Marcus J. Wright. New York, Philadelphia and Washington: J. M. Stoddart & Co.