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| | Robert E. Lee |
 | | With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration of myself, I bid you all an affectionate farewell. | | | "Lee was distressed when news reached him that Virginia had adopted an Ordinance of Secession on April 17, 1861. | | | With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home. |
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http://www.robertelee.org
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| | Amazon.com: Robert E. Lee: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives): Books: Roy, Jr. Blount |
| | The book will not answer all the questions readers might have about Lee, but it is thoroughly enjoyable and engaging. | | | But that would be their loss because this section, too, is rewarding reading. | | | Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670032204?v=glance
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| | General Robert E. Lee - Hero of the Southern Confederacy |
| | Following the war Lee refused a number of offers that would have secured substantial means for his family but which he believed to be unseemly to accept. | | | Near the end of the year he won a convincing defensive victory over Burnside, McClellan’s successor, at Fredericksburg, Virginia. | | | Lee became an instant hero to the people of the South as a result and his soldiers began to develop an almost mystical belief in him as their leader. |
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http://www.swcivilwar.com/lee.html
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| | Robert Edward Lee Biography |
| | Lee returned to Richmond as a paroled prisoner of war, and submitted with the utmost composure to an altered destiny. | | | "With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home. | | | Lee's enormous wartime prestige, both in the North and South, and the devotion inspired by his unconscious symbolism of the "Lost Cause" made his a legendary figure even before his death. |
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http://www.civilwarhome.com/leebio.htm
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| | Robert E. Lee |
| | Grant and Sherman: A Study in Leadership in the 1864-65 Campaign. | | | Civil War Journal II New York, A and E Home Video, 1994. | | | Death of a Nation: The Story of Lee and His Men at Gettysburg. |
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http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/great/lee.htm
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Robert E. Lee |
| | Lee took the lack of response either way to mean that the government wished to retain the right to prosecute him in the future. | | | Lee and his wife had lived at his wife's family home prior to the Civil War, the Custis-Lee Mansion. | | | After his death, the courts ruled that the estate had been illegally seized, and that it should be returned to Lee's son. |
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http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Robert_E._Lee
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| | Robert E. Lee |
| | Lee has long been revered as an ideal by southerners and as a hero by all Americans. | | | In his application of this principle Lee was years ahead of his time; the tactic was not fully understood or generally adopted until the 20th century. | | | For a year he was military adviser to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, and was then placed in command of the army in northern Virginia. |
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http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/civwar/lee.html
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| | Robert E. Lee American Civil War Confederate General |
| | His example of conduct for thousands of ex-Confederates made him a legend even before his death on October 12, 1870. | | | Robert had many ties to Revolutionary War heroes. | | | Lee's surrender to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox Court House ended the Civil War and he was finally pardoned of all wrong doing by President Jimmy Carter. |
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http://americancivilwar.com/south/lee.html
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| | From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Robert E. Lee |
| | Lee was offered the post of President of Washington University where he served until his death in 1870. | | | Following the war Lee was almost tried as a traitor, but was only left with his civil rights suspended. | | | Robert was accepted to the United States Military Academy and graduated 2nd in his class. |
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http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/relee/relee.htm
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| | Robert E. Lee -- Biography |
| | Lee has been compared to General George Washington in terms of the respect which he earned from his soldiers, his region, and the nation. | | | Lee's loyalities proved to be on the side of the South because of his family tradition in and association with the state of Virginia. | | | It was during this time that the secession movment began, and Lee had to evaluate his position as a Whig devoted to the Union and as a Virginian. |
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/monument/leebio.html
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| | Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial (National Park Service) |
| | Lee made his historic decision to resign from the US Army at Arlington House and wrote his resignation letter in his second floor bedchamber. | | | George Washington Parke Custis, Lee’s father-in-law, built the house between 1802 and 1818 to be his home as well as a memorial to George Washington, his step-grandfather. | | | Arlington House, with its associated slave quarters and gardens, are now preserved as a memorial to Robert E. Lee, who gained the respect of Americans in both the North and the South and used his influence after the Civil War to help heal the nation. |
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http://www.nps.gov/arho
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| | Robert E. Lee's Letter to His Daughter Anne |
| | Though in public he was calm and undemonstrative, in private he revealed a warm, sentimental side to his family. | | | In 1909, Robert E. Lee's youngest son, Robert E. Lee, II, published his recollections of his father. | | | A Father's Care for His Family, a Soldier's Concern about His Country |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6732/files/journal_lee.html
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| | Robert E. Lee -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | He is also noted for his famous eulogy of George Washington in 1799: “First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” During the Civil War, his son Robert E. Lee became the Confederacy's most outstanding general (see Lee,... | | | His father was the Revolutionary War hero Light-Horse Harry Lee, a friend of George Washington. | | | American writer nationally acclaimed for her one novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9047596?tocId=9047596
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| | Term Papers on Robert E. Lee - Term Papers Lab |
| | It is a thorough, in depth recordof the life of Lee and begins with a detailed account of his family history andhis birth, through his college years, military experience and his work in laterlife to his death on October 12, 1870. | | | This biography, Great American Generals- Robert E. Lee, by Ian Hogg, takes the reader through the life of one of thegreatest heroes of that war, Robert E. Lee. | | | After Lee's early years, the readerwill learn of his schooling at the Military Academy, West Point, followed by hislife in the Army before and after the Civil War. |
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http://www.termpaperslab.com/term-papers/185.html
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| | Robert E. Lee Civil War Round Table of Central NJ |
| | he Robert E. Lee CWRT is dedicated to the study, preservation, and discussion of the events and people that were part of this period in our nation's history. | | | This partner organization is concerned primarily with saving hallowed ground in the Richmond, Virginia area, where numerous critical battles occurred. | | | Click here to access the form which describes the many benefits of supporting this fabulous facility. |
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http://www.roberteleecwrt.org
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| | Robert E. Lee Collection |
| | Captain Peniston has been working on transcriptions from our Lee collection as a volunteer since September 1998 and his work continues to this day. | | | This page was updated on March 31, 2004. | | | These transcriptions have been created by Robert C Peniston, retired Captain in the United States Navy and former Director of the Lee Chapel at WandL. |
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http://home.wlu.edu/~stanleyv/pentrans.htm
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| | The Robert E. Lee Papers at Washington and Lee University |
| | Washington and Lee University is the owner of these documents. | | | The letters are organized chronologically; choose a year or period below for a listing of individual documents. | | | These 46 letters are a representative sample from our collection which documents aspects of Lee's life and career as a soldier, educator, friend, and father. |
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http://miley.wlu.edu/LeePapers
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| | Robert E. Lee |
| | Birth Mates: These are people whose birthdate is an exact numeric match. | | | For example, Robert Oppenheimer (the father of the atomic bomb) was born under the rune Tyr, which symbolizes a great victory earned at a terrible price - a rather poetic summary of our entry into the Atomic Age. | | | Alternatively, this rune is deeply associated with Frey, and hence can be the harbinger of fertility and children. |
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http://www.facade.com/celebrity/Robert_E_Lee
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| | Stratford Hall Plantation, birthplace of Robert E. Lee |
| | The Robert E. Lee Memorial Association is dedicated to preservation, | | | E-mail the webmaster or view our staff directory | | | Stratford Hall and the plantation life of the Lee Family, whose ideals |
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http://www.stratfordhall.org
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| | Apotheosis of Robert E. Lee |
| | If you could see the real page, you would see an image of the Lee statue in the Capitol's Statuary Hall on the left and the title page on the right. | | | Since you cannot see this, please click here to go to the title page. | | | You are seeing this message because your browser is not equipped to use frames. |
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LEE/lee.html
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| | Robert E. Lee quotes |
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