Record Group 94: Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1762 - 1984 Series: Returns of Military Organizations, ca. 1800 - 12/1916 Item: Letter from Robert E. Lee to Simon Cameron, Secretary of War, in which Lee Resigned from the U.S. Army, 4/20/1861

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Record Group 94: Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1762 - 1984 Series: Returns of Military Organizations, ca. 1800 - 12/1916 Item: Letter from Robert E. Lee to Simon Cameron, Secretary of War, in which Lee Resigned from the U.S. Army, 4/20/1861

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Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889

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Simon Cameron was born in Maytown, Pennsylvania in 1799, to Charles Cameron (d. January 16, 1814) and his wife Martha McLaughlin (d. abt. November 10, 1830). Cameron was the third of five sons; and had three younger sisters. One story claimed that Cameron was orphaned at nine, and later apprenticed to a printer, Andrew Kennedy, editor of the Northumberland Gazette before entering the field of journalism. If Cameron were apprenticed to Kennedy at age nine (~1808) for a then-standard period of ...