Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870
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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870
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Lee
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Robert Edward
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1807-1870
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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.
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.
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Appomattox Campaign, 1865
Ash Lawn (Virginia : Estate)
Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861
Buttons
Capitulation, Military
Cedar Mountain, Battle of, Va., 1862
Cheat Mountain, Battle of, W. Va., 1861
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Cold Harbor, Battle of, Va., 1864
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Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862
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General order #9
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Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
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Kelly's Ford, Battle of, Va., 1863
Königgrätz, Battle of, Sadová, Czech Republic, 1866
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Lee Endowment Fund
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Maryland Campaign, 1862
Mexican War, 1846-1848
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Robert E. Lee Centennial, 1907
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Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864
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Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864
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