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Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809-1877), a Confederate official, editor, and author, was the first-born son of Moses Ousley and Sophia Childress Taylor. A fellow student of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee at West Point Military Academy in 1830, Bledsoe performed military duty at western Indian forts. After graduating from Kenyon College in Ohio, he taught mathematics and French at Kenyon and later Miami University. He praticed law for ten years in Springfield, Illinois from 1838-48 but returned to teaching mathematics from 1848-54 at the University of Mississippi and from 1854-61 at the University of Virginia. Commissioned a colonel in the Confederate Army in 1861, he later became assistant secretary of war. President Jefferson Davis sent Bledsoe to London to investigate historical problems involved in the issues between the North and the South and hoped he could influence English public opinion. In 1867 he founded and edited the Southern Review in Baltimore, Maryland, until his death.
Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the Confederate Army and military advisor to Jefferson Davis, 1861-1862; commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1862-1865; general in chief of all Confederate armies, 1865; president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), 1865-1870.
Virginia native; West Point graduate; veteran of the Mexican War and Confederate general.
United State Army officer; Commander-in-chief of Confederate forces during the Civil War.
Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) took command of the main Confederate army in Virginia in 1862. The army then officially became known as the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee remained in command until the army's surrender in 1865.
Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870.
American soldier.
Commander-in-chief of Confederate forces during Civil War.
Army officer.
Smith was a Confederate soldier.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant near Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, thus bringing the American Civil War to an end.
Confederate general.
On 18 April 1861 Lee, a 17-year veteran, was offered field command of the U.S. Army. He declined, saying that though he was a unionist he could not fight against his native Virginia if it seceded. The next day he learned of the secession and decided that he would have to resign his commission. On the 25th he was appointed commander of the Virginia forces, and shortly afterward commissioned a general in the Confederate army.
Robert E. Lee was the commanding General of the Confederate Army in the Civil War. Lee was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1807. His father was Major General Henry Lee III ("Light Horse Harry"). Lee attended West Point, graduating at the top of his class. Lee was opposed to the succession of the southern states; however, he stood by his native state. After the Civil War Lee became the President of Washington College (present day Washington and Lee University) in 1865 and held that position till his death. Lee used his position as president of the college to show support Johnson's reconstruction plan.
General of the Confederate armies in the American Civil War.
American soldier and educator. He served as general of the Confederate armies in the Civil War (1861-1865).
American soldier, commander-in-chief of the Confederate Armies.
Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) was born in Virginia. He graduated from West Point and was assigned to the Engineer Department. His first service was at Fort Pulaski on Cockspur Island on the Savannah River, then under construction. After serving in several other posts, he became Assistant Chief Engineer in Washington, D.C. He was in the Mexican War under Gen. Winfield Scott. He was for several years Superintendent of West Point. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was offered the field command of the U.S. Army which he refused and soon resigned from his post. In 1861, he was appointed commander of the Virginia forces and served as military adviser to President Jefferson Davis with the rank of General. In 1862, he assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia and in 1865, he was General-In-Chief of all Confederate armies. He surrendered to Gen. U.S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia in 1865. After the war he became president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia where he remained until his death. After his death the name of the College was changed to Washington and Lee University.
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Robert E. Lee, United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the Confederate Army and military advisor to Jefferson Davis, 1861-1862; commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1862-1865; general in chief of all Confederate armies, 1865; president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), 1865-1870.
U.S. army officer, Confederate general, and president of Washington College.
Robert Edward Lee, soldier, Confederate General, and president of Washington College (1865-1870; Lexington, Virginia), was born 19 January 1807, at Stratford, Virginia, and died 12 October 1870, at Lexington, Virginia.
Confederate general, Civil War.
Robert E. Lee was a noted American general and commander of the Confederate forces during the Civil War.
At the time of this letter, Lee was president of Washington College in Lexington, Va.
United States Army officer; Confederate States of America Army general; and president of Washington College.
President of Washington College, 1865-1870.
General in chief of the Confederate armies.
General Lee was Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Born to Henry Lee and Ann Hill in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870), attended West Point from 1825 to 1829. In 1831, he married and had seven children with Mary Ann Randolph Curtis, a descendant of George Washington’s mother. Initially appointed as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, Lee fought in several engagements during the 1850s. Although against the secession of Virginia, Lee was offered the command of the Confederate Army after General Joseph Johnston was wounded in battle of Seven Pines in 1862. After assuming command of the Army of Northern Virginia, Lee engaged Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Potomac despite being outnumbered on a number of occasions. Eventually succumbing to Grant, he surrendered on April 9, 1865. Following the war, Lee returned to his home in Richmond and served as president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). He died on October 12, 1870, and is buried in Lexington, Virginia.
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Heiser, John. General Robert Edward Lee. Gettysburg National Military Park. Last modified September 1998. http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/sidebar/leebio.htm .
Confederate General.
Robert E. Lee was born January 19, 1807 at "Stratford" in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Lee graduated from West Point and distinguished himself in the Mexican War 1846-1848. In 1861 he joined the army of the Confederacy of Southern states; in 1862 he received the command of the Army of Northern Virginia and won the Seven Days' Battle defending Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, against General McClellan's Union forces.
In 1863 Lee won victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, both in Virginia, and in 1864 at Cold Harbor, Virginia, but was besieged in Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865. He surrendered to General Grant on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Courthouse. Following the war he was paroled and served as president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). His home had been seized by Union forces and now is part of Arlington National Cemetery. He died in 1870.
Soldier and Confederate Army General.
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Born to Henry Lee and Ann Hill in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870), attended West Point from 1825 to 1829.
In 1831, he married and had seven children with Mary Ann Randolph Curtis, a descendant of George Washington's mother. Initially appointed as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, Lee fought in several engagements during the 1850s. Although against the secession of Virginia, Lee was offered the command of the Confederate Army after General Joseph Johnston was wounded in battle of Seven Pines in 1862. After assuming command of the Army of Northern Virginia, Lee engaged Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac despite being outnumbered on a number of occasions. Eventually succumbing to Grant, he surrendered on April 9, 1865. Following the war, Lee returned to his home in Richmond and served as president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). He died on October 12, 1870, and is buried in Lexington, Virginia.
Jay Winston Johns, Jr. was a coal industrialist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who moved to Virginia and became a leader in preserving homes of renowned Virginians. He married Helen Lambert (1881-1964). Johns became blind in the late 1950's.
He and his wife owned "Ash Lawn," Albemarle County, Virginia which had been the home of James Monroe and designed by Thomas Jefferson. Johns was founder of the Lee-Jackson Memorial, Inc., a foundation dedicated to preserving the memory of Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson and the South's part in the Civil War; and a founder of the Virginia Trust for Historic Preservation, an organization whose main purpose was that of purchasing, restoring, and maintaining for the public, homes of renowned men specifically, the Lee-Fendall House in Alexandria, Virginia.
Johns, himself was a strong Democrat and corresponded with and publicly supported all of the prominent Virginia political figures of his time. He was a spirited supporter of the Virginia Military Institute as a member of the Board of Visitors, and as an honorary member of the Alumni Association; a charter member, and later trustee of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and a member of the Virginia Chapter of the Society of the Cincinnati. He also received an honorary degree from the College of William and Mary in 1967.
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