Lee Stemulus Dedit Virtus

[Barrycdog]

Sunny South, Jan. 10, 1903 -- page 5

 

[roberts]

STEMULUS DEDIT VIRTUS
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Brilliance Gives Power ?? Is that right?

 

[diane]

Think it means 'Spurred on by valor'? Isn't it misspelled?

 

[Lnwlf]

Google translate: Sting Gave Power if spelled stimulus.
Stemulus gave power if spelled as shown. From Latin.

 

[Lnwlf]

Checked again and as spelled stimulus it reads Incentives to Power. That makes more better sense.

 

[kholland]

I love the line in the article "imported through the blockade". We''re not talking smuggling guns, clothing or something extensive like that from England. This is Prince Georges County Maryland where Lincoln got 1 (or 2) votes in the 1860 election and what was a key communication and supply route to the Confederacy. Getting a pair of spurs "through the blockade" may have even been done by John Surratt himself or one of his cohorts along with whatever else was delivered. Remember also that this was how mail went through the lines with mail drops and the changing of envelopes. Thomas Jones (who helped get John Wilkes Booth across the river into Virginia) was good at this, and more.

 

[whitworth]

Wonder what impressed a thirty year old soldier more. The spelling on the inscription of the gift or the logistics of getting the gift through the blockade.

 

[Barrycdog]

The Paper did misspell it as it was quoted from other newspapers.