>1844
>Robert Lee and Joseph Johnston are stationed at Ft. Hamilton
>The controversial religious movement called Tractarianism is occuring. One of the leaders of the movement was Edward Pusey. It sought to introduce high church practices into the Anglican church, and some American Episcopalians were worried it would gain popularity in America, thus making their religion more Catholic. Lee usually refrained from discussing Tractarianism when it was the topic of conversation. Durng one particularly heated debate among several officers at Ft. Hamilton, they made an effort to draw Lee into the discission, to which he simple advised that they not get involed in the questionable movement. Then in a playful and vulgar use of a double entendre, he warned them to "Beware of Pussyism! Pussyism is always bad, and may lead to unchristian feeling; therefore beware of Pussyism!"
>1847
>the ocupation of Veracruz, where General Winfield Scott wanted to show support for Mexicans' rights to continue their Roman Catholic practices
>Scott, along with a host of other officers and men, attended a religious service, and Johnston found himself seated next to Lee in the crowded assembly. At one point, a church official brought to Scott, and to the officers seated around him, candles, and they were instructed to rise and walk around the building in a procession that to many of the Protestant Americans looked very high church. Johnston and Lee were walking shoulder to shoulder, candles in hand, just beind Scott, when Johnston touched Lee on the elbow. Lee looked dignified and graceful as he pretended to know what the ceremony was about, and he gave his friend a quiet but "rebuking look." Johnston touched him again, and this time Lee leaned over and whispered, "What is it?" To which Johnston responded, "I really hope there is no Pussyism in all this." Lee tried to keep a straight face, but "the corners of his eyes and mouth were twitching in the struggle to preserve his gravity."

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