Robert E. Lee Speech, 1865

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Robert E. Lee Speech, 1865

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00790.xml

This collection contains a photocopy of a farewell address (General Order No. 9) to the Army of Northern Virginia, after his surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, April 10, 1865.

0.1 cu. ft.; 1 folder

eng,

Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Lee, Robert Edward, 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 ...