Letter to Philip Alexander Bruce [manuscript] 25 May 1933. 1933.

Washington and Lee University. University Library

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Bruce, Philip Alexander, 1856-1933

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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 ...

Gaines, Francis Pendleton, 1892-1963

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Francis Pendleton Gaines Jr., the sixth president of Wofford College, was born in 1918 (he grew up around college campuses, as his father was president of Wake Forest University from 1927 to 1930, and president of Washington and Lee University from 1930 to 1959). Gaines graduated from the University of Arizona in 1940 and took his doctorate in history at the University of Virginia. He worked at Southern Methodist University before coming to Wofford in 1952 as president of the college. ...