Robert E. Lee letter, 1868.

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Robert E. Lee letter, 1868.

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Letter from General Robert E. Lee, Lexington, Va., in reply to a request from a 10-year-old girl, Miss Sadie Napiers, San Antonio, Tex., collecting large ornamental buttons as a hobby. Lee states that he is enclosing a button cut from his coat worn during the Civil War. A memorandum, apparently written by the granddaughter of Mrs. Sadie Napiers Paschal, explains why her grandmother requested the button.

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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