Collection, 1862-1865.

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Collection, 1862-1865.

Papers include Coles' appointment as first lieutenant and adjutant for the 4th Alabama, an approved request for furlough to go home to North Alabama, and a bound volume labeled "parole book". This book contains picket lists, the names of the men of the 4th Alabama that surrended at Appomattox, military orders, and a copy of Robert E. Lee's farewell order number 9 to the Confederate troops at Appomattox, Va.

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Coles, R. Thompson.

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R. Thompson Coles served with Company E, 4th Alabama Infantry, during the Civil War. From the description of Collection, 1862-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86124642 ...

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 ...

Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 4th. Company E.

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