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THE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH

THE virtues and graces of the beautiful and accomplished Women of the South have gilded its memories through every generation

Norfolk.

WITH UNFADING SPLENDOR.

WILLIAM H. STEWART,

Grand Commander United Confederate Veterans.

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HAIL to the riders of the South

Who 'neath that banner fought
Which lowered in disaster now
Is yet with glory fraught.

The horsemen who with Stuart rode
Around the hostile ranks;

Or charged with Ashby at their head
By Shenandoah's banks.

To those who fought with Fitzhugh Lee;
Who followed Hampton's plume,

And made the Old Dominion's soil
With added laurels bloom.

The men who sped at Morgan's side
Like hawks upon the wing
And crossed the broad Ohio's tide
To teach invasion's sting.
The troopers who by Forrest led
On many a march and fray,
Through every danger found a path
Or made themselves a way.

And those who never backward looked
When Wheeler bade them go;
And those who o'er Missouri's plains
With Shelby chased the foe.
The rapid dash of Mosby's band
Upon the camp at night;
And Terry's rangers rushing on
In thunder to the fight.

And still in many a Southern home

The Story will be told

Of how they dared the battle's wrath
In the brave days of old.

Louisville, Kentucky.

BASIL W. DUKE.

LEE

WERE I asked to name the most characteristic feature of this Idol of the South, my answer would be, "A complete absence of the melodramatic in all that he said and did.”

All who had the privilege of his personal aquaintance at once recognized a character in which were blended

THE NOBLEST QUALITIES OF MIND AND HEART.

Edward V. Valentine

Richmond.

THE VALENTINE STATUE OF LEE

"As one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams," so lies the matchless Lee

MAJESTIC AND SERENE!

The masterpiece of a genius dear to the Southland, and honored the world around for the matchless marble that will forever entwine the fame of Robert Edward Lee and Edward Valentine.

JULIA WYATT BULLARD.

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