Robert E. Lee: A Story and a Play
By Ruth Hill
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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 - Ruth Hill
Ruth Hill
Robert E. Lee
A Story and a Play
EAN 8596547209201
DigiCat, 2022
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Table of Contents
THE STORY
THE STORY OF ROBERT E. LEE
Growing Up
A Young Soldier
The Mexican War
A Returned Hero
The Civil War
The College President
THE PLAY
Act I
SCENE I
SCENE II
SCENE III
Act II
SCENE I
SCENE II
Act III
SCENE I
SCENE II
SCENE III
Act IV
THE STORY
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THE STORY OF ROBERT E. LEE
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Growing Up
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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
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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 slate.
When the time came, he received