"The Southern preacher was not received with great warmth," for the mighty contention was too close with its significance and results, and its reminiscences were too bitter and too sorrowful.
"With such power" did Dr. Hoge preach, however, that, "when one year later the building was dedicated, the text of his appealing discourse was chosen to be inscribed on the wall," just over the pulpit, and it remains there, a memorial to him, to this day.
A Great Man in Israel has been taken!
The grateful incense of his memory remains!
The world is better that he lived !
GENERAL JOSEPH WHEELER.
The Visit of the Hero to Richmond, Va., Dec. 16-17, 1899.
ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF A PORTRAIT OF "THE GALLANT PELHAM," TO R. E. LEE CAMP CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
With Addresses by Mr. E. P. Cox, General Wheeler, Gov. J. Hoge Tyler, Judge D. A. DeArmond, and Hon. W. A. Jones.
Richmond, Virginia, had a visit from the virile veteran, General Joseph Wheeler, in January, 1899.
The hero of two wars, at the close of the Civil War, by his skill and indomitable courage, had won the high rank of Lieutenant-General, and been assigned to the command of a corps. In our last war, it has been urged that he was the chief propeller to successful issue, and that his coolness and courage at Santiago (although he arose from prostrating illness in an ambulance and pressed to the front), saved our army, at least, from temporary disaster.
Rev. J. William Jones, D. D., who has lately examined the official reports of the war, 1861-1865, states that General Wheeler had sixteen horses killed under him in that gigantic conflict.
General Wheeler came to Richmond at the invitation of R. E. Lee Camp Confederate Veterans, to accept on its behalf, the portrait of Major John Pelham, presented to it by the Sons of Veterans. He was accompanied by Hon. David A. DeArmond, Member of
