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Captain Robert E. Lee served as an engineer under the command of General Winfield Scott. Years later, Lee would receive the rank of general and be appointed by Jefferson Davis as commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870)
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Matthew Brady Collection, Washington D.C.
Brady portrait
The 2ooth anniversary of his birthday was last Friday (January 19).
Robert E. Lee
Douglas Southall Freeman biography
Arlington House The Robert E Lee Memorial
Stratford Hall Plantation (his birthplace)
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Recollections and Letters
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