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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 - Relating To (Sc 1273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 - Relating To (Sc 1273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1273. Insurance application, dated 17 October 1859, for the home and barn of General Robert E. Lee in Arlington, Virginia. Includes a detailed description of the structures.
Memory And Meaning: Civil Rights In Lee's Backyard, John M. Rudy
Memory And Meaning: Civil Rights In Lee's Backyard, John M. Rudy
Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public
I walked up the long winding path named for Mary Custis and her family home. As I ascended the steps I stopped to quickly pay my respects to Robert Todd Lincoln. But he wasn't my quarry for the day. As I came to the top of the steps, Robert E. Lee's home hove into view. I've been inside Lee's house a few times. Each time has been interesting, but relatively hollow. Those four walls lack the raw power that the surrounding acres seem to ooze. [excerpt]
George Meade’S Mixed Legacy, Allen C. Guelzo
George Meade’S Mixed Legacy, Allen C. Guelzo
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
George Gordon Meade was 47 years old the morning of June 28, 1863, when command of the Army of the Potomac was unceremoniously dumped into his lap by General in Chief Henry Hallcck, and there is no reason to doubt Meade's protest that the move rendered him the most surprised man in the entire Union Army. Meade had never wanted to be a soldier in the first place, much less take direction of an army that at that moment was facing perhaps its most daunting challenge. But compared to his immediate predecessors, Maj. Gens. Ambrose Burnside and Joseph Hooker, what …
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 694. Letter, 7 April 1866, of Robert E. Lee, Lexington, Virginia, to Mrs. S. C. P. Miller of Petersburg, Virginia. Lee returns photographs with his signature as requested, and encloses others which his wife has recommended as better likenesses. Includes one photograph.
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) For Manuscripts Small Collection 665. Facsimile of letter written to Brigadier General Walter Husted Stevens by General Robert E. Lee regarding the reasons for and terms of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, and thanking him for his service.
Gooch, Thomas Claiborne, 1830-1889 (Sc 810), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gooch, Thomas Claiborne, 1830-1889 (Sc 810), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 810. Letter, 1864, written by Thomas Claiborne Gooch, Louisville, Kentucky, to his brother William, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes comments about the gold standard, Major General Stephen Gano Burbridge, George B. McClellan’s chances of winning the 1864 presidential election, and Robert E. Lee’s international influence.