Robert E. Lee letter to R. M. T. Hunter [manuscript], 1864 January 22.
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Hunter, R. M. T. (Robert Mercer Taliaferro), 1809-1887
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Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (April 21, 1809 – July 18, 1887) was a Virginia lawyer, politician and plantation owner. He was a U.S. Representative (1837–1843, 1845–1847), Speaker of the House (1839–1841), and U.S. Senator (1847–1861). During the American Civil War, Hunter became the Confederate States Secretary of State (1861–1862) and then a Confederate Senator (1862–1865) and critic of President Jefferson Davis. After the war, Hunter failed to win re-election to the U.S. Senate, but did ser...
Heth, Henry, 1825-1899
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United States Army officer and Confederate States of America general; of Chesterfield County and Richmond, Va. From the description of Papers of Henry Heth [manuscript], 1758-1942. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647854522 ...
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 ...
