Life of Robert E. Lee

In preparing the Life of Robert E. Lee for school use, I have been imi3elled by a knowledge of the importance of the task and the value of such a book to children. There are exceptionally good reasons for employing it as a supplementary reader, especially at this time. First, there is an urgent need of interesting our young ieople in history at an early age. From observation, I have found that the minds of children who study history exjiand more rapidl than those who are restricted to stories in readers. While teachers are engaged in instructing pupils how to read, why should they not, at the same time, fix in the pupils minds the names and deeds of our great men, and thereby lay the foundation for sound historical knowledge and genuine patriotism? Second, no other great American presents quite such a picture of moral grandeur as Lee. In the absolute purity of his life and the unselfish nobility of his aims, he stands preeminent among the heroes of our land. Place this picture before the little ones and you cannot fail to make them look upward to the noblest ideals. The book is intended for supplementary reading in the third grade. In preparing it, I have referred especially to Fitzhugh Lee s Life of Lee and to Rev. J. Wm. Jones s Personal Reminiscences of R. E. Lee although all the important works bearing on Lee have been more or less consulted. In the revision of the original iai General Alexander s Military Memoirs of a Confederate has been followed to a considerable extent. Mary L. Williamson. New Market, Va.
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