Letter : Lexington, Va. to J. Willcox Brown [Afton, Va.], 1868 December 23.

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Letter : Lexington, Va. to J. Willcox Brown [Afton, Va.], 1868 December 23.

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Robert E. Lee declines the offer of the position as managing director of the Richmond branch of the Universal Life Insurance Company. J. Willcox Brown explains the circumstances of the offer in an accompanying note.

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Brown, J. Willcox, banker.

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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 ...

Universal Life Insurance Company (Richmond, Va.)

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