Letter, 1863 July 14.

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Letter, 1863 July 14.

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Letter to Dr. J. Owen in which the author expresses anger over preferential treatment given to Confederate patients in local hospitals; conveys a rumor alleging that Robert E. Lee had been witnessed leaving the home of an African American woman and her five mulatto children in Philadelphia; and mentions the draft in Philadelphia and New York, as well as the ensuing rioting in the latter.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Seifer, Mary B.

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Mother of Union soldier and resident of Avondale, Penn. From the description of Letter, 1863 July 14. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 30789261 ...

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 ...