W.H.F. LEE, he uses this language:
He was a zealous, conscientious, brave, and intelligent soldier,
who fully discharged all of his duties. He was one of those safe,
sound, judicious officers, and you always felt when you sent
instructions to him that they were going to be obeyed promptly and
to the letter.
What greater tribute could be paid a soldier?
Having been married to one of the most accomplished ladies in Virginia,
Miss Bolling, of Petersburg (who, with two sons, survives him) he
removed in 1874 to Ravensworth, and was the next year elected to the
senate of Virginia, where he made an honorable record.
He was elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, and served
his State with that fidelity which had characterized his every act
through life--faithful, conscientious, and painstaking--ever alert to
the interests of his constituents and seeking only how he could serve
them.
He was again reelected to the Fifty-second Congress, and though by the
will of Divine Providence he was not permitted to take his seat, he will
ever be held in grateful remembrance by his late constituents, and when
the long roll of Virginia's noble and heroic dead is called, the name of
WILLIAM H.
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