He remained in a state of insensibility till the 12th of October, when, at nine o'clock in the morning, surrounded by his family, he gave up his magnanimous soul to his Creator. He died in the sixty-fourth year of his age. The grief in the South was universal. Everywhere the despatch announcing the death of the great Virginian fell on thousands of hearts like a funeral knell. The dismal sound of bells, the Virginian flag half-mast high, the mournful assemblies of citizens crowding the churches to celebrate a funeral service in honour of the departed hero, the addresses to his family, all testified the profound feeling which animated the South in view of this great loss. The legislature of Virginia adjourned. It was desired to give to the illustrious deceased a public funeral, and bury him at Richmond. But his friends preferred to keep him near them. He rests in the College Chapel. In accordance with his wish, there was no funeral oration over his tomb; the ceremony was limited to the reading of the magnificent Burial Service of the Church of England. There, in the beautiful Valley of Virginia, sleeps this great victim of the most terrible civil war of modern times. The heart becomes a prey to profound sadness, while observing that so beautiful an existence but furnishes another example of that fatal law which, between two causes equally justifiable, gives the triumph to that which is able to dispose of the most money and to sacrifice the greatest number of lives without enfeebling itself! But before this mystery let us bow our heads, as one more to be added to those inexplicable things which surround us. 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