From the 6 August 1899 issue of The New York Times.
THE ROBERT E. LEE MONUMENT.
Large Tract of Land Given at Fort Myer Heights, Va.
Special to The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—The officers of the Robert E. Lee Monument Association have sent out a circular letter to the Daughters and Sons of the Confederacy asking for suggestions. The letter says that a large tract of land has been given by patriotic citizens of Fort Myer Heights, Alexandria County, Va. The circular says, in part:
It is significant that the land was owned and is given in equal parts by a Maryland man and a Pennsylvanian, from States whose people nearly forty years ago were, for conscience sake, divided into opposing armies. While we from the South are justly proud of Robert E. Lee as a product of our Southland, as a man whose Christian spirit and matchless courage embodies the tone and chivalry of the Southern character, we accept with pride the sentiment which places him also as an American soldier and citizen whose life and record have contributed to the history of our whole country.