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    Robert E. Lee A Story and a Play
    Robert E. Lee A Story and a Play
    Robert E. Lee A Story and a Play
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    Robert E. Lee A Story and a Play

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    Robert E. Lee A Story and a Play
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    Ruth Hill

    Ruth Hill is a theatre marker and educator, who previously worked as a teacher. Together they founded More than a Mum, a platform to resource and support women through the identity crisis that motherhood can sometimes bring. Talking to Children About Race is their first book.

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      Robert E. Lee A Story and a Play - Ruth Hill

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Robert E. Lee, by Ruth Hill

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      Title: Robert E. Lee

      A Story and a Play

      Author: Ruth Hill

      Release Date: November 29, 2010 [EBook #34473]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROBERT E. LEE ***

      Produced by David Garcia, Roberta Staehlin, Steve Read and

      the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images

      generously made available by The Internet Archive/American

      Libraries.)

      Cover

      ROBERT E. LEE

      A Story

      and

      A Play

      LITTLE FOLKS' PLAYS OF AMERICAN HEROES

      GEORGE WASHINGTON

      BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

      ABRAHAM LINCOLN

      ULYSSES S. GRANT

      ROBERT E. LEE

      JOHN JOSEPH PERSHING

      MAKERS OF AMERICA

      Richard G. Badger, Publisher Boston

      Little Folks' Plays of American Heroes

      ROBERT E. LEE

      A STORY AND A PLAY

      RUTH HILL

      BOSTON

      RICHARD G. BADGER

      THE GORHAM PRESS

      Copyright, 1920, by Richard G. Badger

      All Rights Reserved

      MADE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.

      CONTENTS

      THE STORY

      THE STORY OF ROBERT E. LEE

      Growing Up

      Once upon a time in beautiful Virginia there lived a little boy named Robert Edward Lee. It was in the days before the Civil War when, if we may believe all we hear, all the women were charming, and all the men were gentlemen.

      The boy's father was one of the most gallant of the gentlemen, for he was Light Horse Harry of Revolutionary War fame. He it was who said of Washington, First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. Mr. Lee did not realize, then, how many people would apply this same remark to his own son.

      No doubt little Robert got in and out of as many scrapes as any other active little boy, but all the time he was hard at work learning to control his temper. I started to say he was learning to be a gentleman, but that was something he did not have to learn. A gentleman he was by nature, as the Lees of Virginia had been for generations.

      He did not have a very happy boyhood. His father died when Robert was only eleven. His mother was an invalid and Robert was the one who did all the thoughtful little things that mean so much when one is sick. He would race home from school to take her out to ride. He would arrange all the pillows carefully and then tell her everything amusing he could think of, because he said unless she was cheerful the ride would do her no good.

      In her last illness he nursed her day and night. If Robert left the room, she kept her eyes on the door until he returned, but she never had long to wait.

      A Young Soldier

      When the time came for Robert to choose a profession he decided to be a soldier. He prepared himself for West Point. His teacher said that everything Robert started to do, he finished beautifully, even if it were only a plan drawn on his

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