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Title: Men and things I saw in civil war days
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Rusling, James Fowler, 1834-1918
Subjects: Generals
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, The Methodist book concern
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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outly say: * Let his great example stand,Colossal, seen of every land; And make the soldier firm, the statesman pure,Till in all lands, and through all human story,The path of duty be the way to glory, And let the land whose hearths he saved from shame, For many and many an age proclaim, At civic revel and pomp and game, And when our long-illumined cities flame, Our ever loyal iron leaders fame, With honor, honor, honor, honor to him—Eternal honor to his name! And as for believers in Methodism, let them also say:All hail to this modest man of Methodist faith and Meth-odist origin! Born in a Methodist home, bred in aMethodist Sunday school, trained in the MethodistChurch, and married to a Methodist wife, right worthilydid he become the first Methodist President of the Repub-lic. And as the great conqueror of the Rebellion, andtwice President of the United States, he will descend tohistory an honor and a credit to the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, while time lasts or history endures. 148
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Gen. Robert E. Lee, J864. Robert E. Lee CHAPTER XIRobert E. Lee I DID not serve under General Lee, and am glad I didnot; but may I venture to write a chapter on General Leealso ? It may be dangerous business, but has not the timecome to marshal the facts and try to arrive at some justestimate of General Lee also ? It has become the fashionto place General Lee on a pedestal, and worship him afaroff—at the expense of our Union generals, particularlyof General Grant—as vide General Lord Wolseley andothers. But let us take the scales of history, and see howthey balance. I will at least try to hold them level, which-ever kicks the beam. I beg pardon of his Confederatefriends in advance, if I seem to be unfair. But really Ido not mean to be so, if I can help it. Of course, Secession was a sophism, and the SouthernConfederacy from the first a thing doomed. It was an an-achronism in the nineteenth century—a pirate ship stillafloat, but sure to sink or be sunk in due time. Howcould they

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