CIVIL STRIFE, merge for an historic moment and then cross; that of
the Grants turning toward the West, and that of the Lees keeping
within the confines of Virginia.

It was in 1799 that Captain Noah Grant migrated to Ohio, and during
the same year Henry Lee delivered the memorial address upon the
death of Washington, coining the immortal phrase "first in war,
first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."

Ulysses Grant, the Commander of the Union forces in the Civil War,
was the grandson of Captain Grant, who served with "Light Horse
Harry" Lee during the Revolution; and Robert Lee, the Confederate
General, was "Light Horse Harry's" son.

Thus, for the THIRD time in two and a half centuries, a civil
conflict between men of the English-speaking race blazed the trails
of Grant and Lee.





Chapter II




Washington and Lee