Petition for amnesty, 1863 Mar. 18.

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Petition for amnesty, 1863 Mar. 18.

Petition sent to Robert E. Lee requesting amnesty for Private Isaac Arnold, who was charged with cowardice and absence from his post during battle and sentenced to death.

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Arnold, Isaac, -1863

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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 ...