“He performed every duty faithfully and conscientiously.”
Ivanhoe, Virginia, January 23, 1904.
My Dear Mrs. Longstreet,—As commander of the Ivanhoe Camp, United Confederate Veterans, and as perhaps the youngest Confederate veteran, “who enlisted as a private,” I desire to express to you the sympathy of myself and of the Camp which I have the honor to command. While we mourn with you in this your sad hour of bereavement, it is gratifying to know that General Longstreet performed his every duty faithfully and conscientiously, and that his many virtues will entitle him to a high seat in that better world above, where we hope, when our mission on earth is finished, we shall be permitted to meet him in all the glory which his many virtues here below so justly entitles him. Hoping that the Good Lord, the Grand Commander and Ruler of the Universe, will comfort you in your sad trials, and with best wishes, I am most sincerely yours,
M. W. Jewett,
Commander Ivanhoe Camp, U. C. V.
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“Lamented by the nation.”
Minneapolis, January 3, 1904.
Dear Mrs. Longstreet,—With thousands of my countrymen I sincerely lament the death of your illustrious husband, the great soldier and citizen, and extend to you, most bereaved of all, my sincere sympathy.
Mrs. Torrance shares these sentiments with me, and wishes to be remembered to you in love and sympathy.