The Danville Register from Danville, Virginia • Page 18

buried Near Cr yPt Of Master, Moy 2, 3-B LEXINGTON, May 2 Evryone loved Traveller, Gen. Robert E. Lee's famous horse. Heinspired artists to paint his portrait, and poets to compose 'ines about him General Lee often wrote of great affection for (he horse who bore him through all the great battles of the Civil War. After the war Gen' Lee wrote; "Traveller is my only companion, I may also say my plaesure, He and I whenever a i a wander out in the mountains and enjoy sweet confidence Now Traveller will lie near his master.

This Saturday May 8, he will be rcburicd adjancent to Lee Chapel on the Washington and University campus Gen. Lee lies buried in the Lee Family Crypt. In a brief ceremony at 3:00 P.m. the United Daughters of the Confederacy i present to the University a grtmte marker placed at the burial site. The inscription a Iraveller, Horse of Gen Robert E.

Lee. Placed by Division, UDC, May Traveller died in 1872, two years after Gen. Lee's death, and was buried on University grounds near Woods creek, an area where he often grazed while Lee lived in Lexington, as president of Washington College a i a university) from 1865-70. For reasons which are now obscured, Traveller's skeleton was exhumed in 1907, and for many years was on display at the University, initially in" a glass case in the biology department, and later as part of the Lee Museum in the chapel Lee had built while president Washington College. Through the years, the bones deteriorated, and when the Chapel was reopened after restoration in 1963 they were placed in storage.

To be buried with the bones are the signatures of Registration Starts Monday At Averett Registration for the spring term at Averett College begm Monday morning in the Registrar's office in Main Biuldmg at the College. Under the newly enacted option calendar any one can take advantage of the 56 courses offered during the second anual spring term beginning May 4 through June 29. This flexible academic has made more courses more convenient and more ac- cessible to Averett students as well as students in the local area. If a student he may attend the yiall, winter, and spring terms for completion of the bac- calaureate degree program in three years. He may also a four-year schedule making use of the ten-month calendar for an enriched program of study A total of 124 dorm students and 185 day students have already registered for spring courses.

Registration is scheduled for courses in art, dramatic arts and speech, i English, French, religion, and i i logy, mathematice, physical scicn- economics geography, history, psychology, sociology, business, education, a physical education. Commencement exercises are to be held June 30 at which time thirty students will be awarded bachelor degrees and ten will receive associate degrees. Summer session will begin July 5 and will end August 6. A May Queen To Be Crowned Al Callands "Fun For Funds Day" will feature the crowning of a May Queen at the Callands Elemen- tary School Friday when the PTA event is feld from 4:30 until 9 p.m. In addition there will be relay races, a father-son softbail game, booths for loop-thrwing, fishing and fortune telling, pony rides and good food.

A male beauty contest will be held in the auditorium at the end of the day. Students attending will pay five cents and adults 10 cents to participate in an event. Tickets to enter the ground will be 25 and 50 cents. Callands YFers To Discuss Petroleum Safety 'Farm Petroleum Safety" is subject for discussion when the Callands Young Farmers Association meets Thursday at 8 i Callands Elementary School. All members are urged to at tend this meeting.

Rites Set Today LYNCHBURG Graveside services fr Robert Walter Wor- sham, 71, of Lynchburg Rt 2 will be held today at 2 p.m. at Worsham family cemetery Piltsyivania County by the Rev Charles Thompson. Mr. Worsham died Friday at 'his home. AUCTION FARMS LOTS FARMS May 8f 10:30 A.M.

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Melvin lacey, Auctioneer 724-7327 hundreds of Washington and Lee students. For when the bones were first displayed, they were the object of an early form of graffiti. freshmen followed a superstition which said if (hey "signed" the bones, they would not flunk a course. While he Jived, Traveller commanded great affection When an artist friend of Lee's requested a description form which to paint Traveller's portrait, Lee replied from Lexington: "If I were an artist like you, I would draw a true picture of a cse i his fine proportions, muscular figure deep chest, short back, strong haunches, flat legs, small head, broad forehead, delicate ears, quick eye, small feet and black mane and tail. "Such a picture inspire a poet, whose genius could then ddpict his worth and describe his endurance of toil, hunger.thirst, heat, cold, and the dangers a sufferings through which he has passed.

He could dilate on his sagacity and affection, and his invariable response to every wish of his rider. He might imagine his thoughts, through the long mght marches and days of battle through which he has passed. "But I am no artist; I can only say he is a Confederate grey. "I purchased him in the mountains of -Virginia in the autumn of 1861 and he has been my patient follower ever since to Georgia, the Carolmas, a back Virginia. He carreid me through the Seven Days battle around Richmond, the second Manassas, a Sharpsburg Fedencksburg, the last days a a ellorsville, to Pennsylvanis, at Gettysburg a a Rappahannock.

"From the commencement of the campaign in 1864 at Orange, till its close aroound Petersburg, the saddle was scarcely off his back as he passed through the fire of the Wilderness, was almost in daily requisition in the winter of 1864-65 on the long line Chicahominy, of Richmond, to Hatcher's Run, Appomattox. In the campaign of 18(35, he bore me from Petersburg to the days at Appomattox Court House. "You must know comfort he is to me in my present retirement. "He is well supplied with equipments. Two sets been sent to him England, one from the ladies of Baltimooro, and one svas mode for him in Richmond; but I think his favourite is the American saddle from St Louis.

"Of all his companions in toil, 'Richmond', Roan', 'Ajax', and quiet 'Lucy Long', he is the only one that retaind his vigour. The first two expired under i onerous burden, and the last two failed. "You can, am sure, from what I have said, paint his portrait." Traveller inspired poets Stephen Vincent Benet in his John Brown's 1 included these lines: "And now at last, Comes Traveller and his master, Look at them well, horses are The of the horseman's hands and thighs, I'hey go by the word and hardly need the rein. They bred such horses in Virginia a remembered after death And buried not so far from Christian ground That if their sleeping riders should arise They could not witch them from the earth again And ride a printless course along the grass With the old manage and light ease hand." Traveler was born near Biue Sulphur Springs, W. Va in April of 1857, and originally was named "Jeff As a colt, he won two first prizes at the Greenbrier Fair, and was also called "Greenbier He grew to a height of 16 hands.

The horse changed owners several times before Gen. Lee purchased him in Fcburary 1862 and renamed him Traveller. One eyewitness report of Traveller's early conduct on the battle field spoke of him rising on his hind legs at the first shot, of i "terrible" when he smelled gunpowder, and of looking wild-eyed and "wanting to get away from here." But others make a point of emphasizing i calmness during battle. One instance is recorded of Traveller giving Gen. Lee a difficult time during the war.

Once, in the summer of 1862, it is reported, Gen. Lee dismounted from Traveller, leaving his h'm through the reins. For some a Traveller bolted, and Lee instinctively grabbed reins, straining his hands so badly that he reportedly could not ride horseback again for six weeks. Many legends grew up about the gray horse. One says that he died on a feather bed.

For many years, it was a a a joke at Washington and Lee that the University had Traveller's bones both as an adult and as a colt. This last- story apparently stemmed from the fact a plastic model of a prehistoric horse's skeleton about the size of a colt was once displayed beside Traveller's skeleton. Several people claim today to own horses descended from Traveller. But this is impossible i Traveller was a gelding. When Gen.

Lee died in 1870 Traveller took his place in the funeral procession, his master's booots reversed in his stirrups. The continued to graze on the WL campus for two years after Lee's death, but died in the summer of 1872 after stepping on a rusty nail-and developing tetanus. He 'was 15 years old. DANVILLE HEARING AID CENTER Mgr. Up to off dealer's price on oil types of aids.

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