General Lee's visit to Leesburg and Harrison Hall, 1922 Aug. 2.

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General Lee's visit to Leesburg and Harrison Hall, 1922 Aug. 2.

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During the first week of Sept. 1862, Confederate troops passed through Leesburg, Va., on their way to an invasion of the North. General Robert E. Lee spent the night of 4 Sept. in Leesburg at the home of a distant relative, Henry Tazewell Harrison (1796-1881). While there, Lee and some of his generals met at the Harrison house to discuss the Maryland campaign. This collection consists of a two page photocopy of a typewritten historical anecdote of General Lee's visit to Leesburg and Harrison Hall dated 2 Aug. 1922. While the authorship of the anecdote is unverified, it has been suggested by a long-time Leesburg resident to have been written by Mary Conrad, daughter of Mary Jones Harrison.

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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 ...

Conrad, Mary Harrison, 1856-1933.

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Harrison, Henry Tazewell, 1796-1881

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Harrison Hall (Leesburg, Va.)

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