Mastin Gentry White Robert E. Lee Collection, 1831-ca. 1931
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Lee, George Washington Custis, 1832-1913
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Born in 1832, George Washington Custis Lee was the oldest of the Lees' children and had the reputation of a trouble maker as a small child. But he grew up to be a serious, and most capable young man and graduated at the top of his class from the United States Military Academy in 1854. After graduation, Custis pursued a military career. In May 1861, Custis resigned his commission in the U.S. Army shortly after Virginia voted to secede from the Union. During the Civil War he attained the rank of B...
Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1873
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Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (b. Oct. 1, 1807, Boyce, VA–d. Nov. 5, 1873, Lexington, VA) was descended from several colonial and Southern families, including the Parke Custises, Fitzhughs, Dandriges, Randolphs, Rolfes, and Gerards. She is a descendant from Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, making her a descendant of Charles II of England and Scotland and of William Fitzhugh. She was the only surviving child of George Washington Parke Custis, President George Washington's step-grandson and...
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885
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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio-died July 23, 1885, Wilton, New York) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans, created the Justice Department, and reestablish the public credit. Promoted lieutenant-general, in 1864, Grant led the Union Army in winning the American Civ...
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 ...
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
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Mathew Brady was a prominent American photographer, best known for his battlefield photos during the Civil War. From the description of Mathew Brady letter, Washington, D.C., to E.C. Stedman, 1879 March 20. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 82087446 From the description of Letter, Washington, D.C., to E.C. Stedman, 1879 March 20. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50061938 Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1823-1896) was a...
Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891
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Confederate general. From the description of Letter (copy), 1861 Sept. 11 : Manassas, Va., to G.T. Beauregard. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122489351 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Selma [Alabama], to Colonel Blanton Duncan, 1867 Jan. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489683 From the description of Letter, October 9, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 443082432 Benjamin Stoddert E...
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863
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Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863) was a Confederate Army officer from Lexington (Rockbridge Co.), Va. From the guide to the Stonewall Jackson papers, 1855-1906, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) Confederate general. From the description of Stonewall Jackson papers, 1842-1898 (bulk 1861-1862) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23186323 Confederate Army officer, from Lexington (Rockbridge Co.), Va. From the de...
White, Mastin Gentry, 1901-1987
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Mastin Gentry White (1901-1987) was a University of Texas law professor, an official in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, a law partner of Tom Connally and a U. S. Court of Claims commissioner from 1955-1980. From the guide to the Mastin Gentry White Robert E. Lee Collection, 87-317., 1831-ca. 1931, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) ...
