Georgia:  Coweta County: Congress Pays Tribute to General Robert E. Lee 
30 January 1925

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The Newnan Herald, Friday, January 30, 1925

CONGRESS PAYS TRIBUTE TO LEE

   Washington, Jan 19, Observing the birthday anniversary today of Gen. 
Robert E. Lee, the House paused for a few minutes to hear Ralph Stedman, 
Democrat, North Carolina deliver a brief tribute to Gen. Lee.
   The veteran North Carolina member, sole survivor in the House of the Army 
that Lee commanded, declared that he regarded his commander of the early 
sixty ‘as not only one of the greatest military commanders, but also one of 
the most stainless’ whose fame ‘belongs not to Virginia alone but is the 
birthright of every American citizen’. 
   Mr. Stedman reviewed many of the wars which produced leaders whose names 
are found in history. Many of the places of conflict, he declared, have been 
forgotten, for it is ‘moral grandeur which produces a durable impression and 
a day may come be asserted, when the memory of the fields of Gettysburg and 
Chancellorsville of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania court house, ‘may be 
dimmed by the obscurity of revolving years’. 
   ‘But even then’ he concluded, ‘the enduring fortitude, patriotic self 
abnegation and unrivaled military genius of Gen. Robert E. Lee will stand for 
the in undecaying lustre, amid the wreck of ages and survive unshaken above 
the floods of time.’
   Major Stedman was given a ovation by his colleagues when he completed his 
eulogy, the entire membership of the House rising and applauding as he made 
his way to his seat. The galleries joined in the applause. Business was 
temporarily suspended a few minutes later by applause when Representative 
Sherwood, Democrat Ohio, oldest member of the House, veteran of the Civil War 
on the Union side, grasped the hand of his Southern colleague in 
congratulations.