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Firm a Foundation". After the singing he said so that 

 all could hear, "The peace of God which passeth all 

 understanding be with you all — all!" Toward the end 

 he inquired of his son Richard, "Are my feet growing 

 cold? Do I drag my anchors?" Upon receiving an 

 affirmative answer, he said, "All's well". About fifteen 

 minutes before he died, his wife and daughters were 

 requested by him to leave the room, and he was left 

 with his two sons and two sons-in-law. At 12.40 P.M., 

 on Saturday, February 1, 1873, his life came to a close. 



The body lay in state in the hall of the Library of 

 Virginia Military Institute from four o'clock in the 

 afternoon of Monday until Wednesday. The gallery 

 round the hall was festooned with black, a large anchor 

 and a cross of evergreens being placed at alternate 

 angles; while the columns were draped spirally. The 

 wall was covered with maps constructed under Maury's 

 supervision, and on opposite sides of the gallery were 

 placed two heavily draped flags, the one being that of 

 his native state Virginia, and the other that of his 

 adopted state Tennessee. In the center of the hall rested 

 the bier, bearing his body, with his breast covered with 

 the foreign orders that had been conferred upon him, 

 and with a gentle smile on his face. Near the bier stood 

 a large globe bearing this appropriate inscription: "The 

 whole world is mourning for Maury". 



A funeral service was held in the hall on Wednesday 

 about noon, by the Reverend William Pendleton, D. D. 

 of Grace Church, after which the coffin, attended by the 

 cadet battalion and the faculty of Virginia Military In- 

 stitute and the professors and students of Washington 

 and Lee University^ and the citizens of Lexington, was 



'This was the name given to Washington College in 1871 after the death 

 of General Lee on October 12, 1870. 



