True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 168
While he was away on a long vacation at his beautiful homein Virginia, called Arlington, just opposite Washington, theCivil War broke out. You know what that was, of course—the dreadful and terrible trouble between two parts of ourdear native land—the North and the South. ROBERT E. LEE 169 It could… … HE WAVED HIS SWORD ABOVE HIS HEAD AND DASHED TO THE FRONT. were killed on both sides, and there was sorrow and distressall over the land. But when the war was over, the people ofthe United States became better friends than they had everbeen before, and there will never be such a war again. 17 j…
