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Title: Brief biographies from American history, for the fifth and sixth grades : required by the syllabus for elementary schools of New York state education department
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Turpin, Edna Henry Lee, 1867-1952
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Publisher: New York : C. E. Merrill Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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val of his administration.A noteworthy act of his second term was his vetoingthe bill for the inflation of the currency, making papermoney legally equal to gold and silver. People wanted him to serve a third term but he re-fused, and in 1877 started on a tour of the world. Hevisited Europe and Asia and was everywhere receivedwith honor,— as the guest of Queen Victoria, thekings of Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, the Czarof Russia, and other rulers. Having received royalhonors in many lands, he returned in 1880 to Cali-fornia where he had served thirty years before as anobscure young soldier. His last years were burdened by business misfor-tunes and physical suifering. He had invested hismoney in a banking business which failed and involvedhim in ruin. With poverty came illness, a painfulthroat disease Avhich was to end in death. From his sickroom in answer to words of sympathyM-liich came from all parts of the country, indeed of tlio.■\vorld^ he sent this message: I am very much
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ROBERT E. LEE 277 touelicd and grateful for the sympathy and interestmanifested in me by my friends and by those who havenot hitherto been regarded as my friends. I desire thegood will of all, whether heretofore friends or not. To make provision for his family, he set abont writ-ing his Memoirs, the story of his life and battles.In pain and illness, he toiled on and held death at baytill this work was finished, July 1, 1885. A few dayslater, he died on July 23. He was laid to rest besidethe Hudson and over his remains was erected a mag-nificent marble tomb; over the doorway of this is in-scribed his noble words, Let ns have peace. Robert E. Lee The Leader of the Confederate Armies More and more, Americans are coming to realize thatin the great War between the States men on both sideswere animated by a sense of duty and devotion to whatthey thought right. On the one side, brave, loyal-hearted men upheld the Union; on the other, men asbrave and loyal upheld the supremacy of the state.Yo

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