January Nineteenth
ENGLISH TRIBUTES TO AMERICAN GENIUS
Lee—One of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all the generals who have spoken the English tongue.
Col. G. F. R. Henderson, C.B.
Poe—How can so strange and fine a genius and so sad a life be expressed and compressed in one line?
Lord Tennyson
(From letter in Poe Memorial Vol., 1877)
Robert Edward Lee born, 1807
Edgar Allan Poe born, 1809
Georgia secedes, 1861