Lee, Robert E.

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1. A general of the nineteenth century; the commander of Confederate troops during the Civil War. Before the war, he led the marines who put down the insurrection by John Brown at Harpers Ferry and took Brown captive. In the war, he led the Army of Northern Virginia and won the Battle of Chancellorsville but lost the Battle of Gettysburg. He surrendered to the Union army, under the command of Ulysses S. Grant, at Appomattox Court House in 1865.

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Lee's excellence of character and brilliance as a general won him the respect of people on both sides of the war.

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The Peale painting was given to the university in 1897 by George Washington Custis Lee, Robert E. Lee’s eldest son, and himself a former Confederate general, who had just retired as the university’s president.

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Mary Custis Lee, Robert E. Lee’s wife, gifted the church $10,000 to help begin its endowment.

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Lee, Robert E.: military standing of, 38.

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Lee, Robert E., Jr.; enlisted March 26, 1862; lieutenant on staff, and captain.

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Lee, Robert E., resigns in the United States Army, 308;   rank, 308;   appointment in the Confederate Army, 309;   appointed commander-in-chief of the military forces of Virginia, 328;   commands the Army of Virginia, 340;   remarks, 340;   goes to western Virginia, 434;   his movements, 434;   the bad season, 434;   decides to attack the encampment of the enemy, 434;   the instructions, 435;   refrains from the attack, 435;   cause, 435;   moves to the support of Wise and Floyd, 436;   the enemy withdraws, 436;   Lee returns to Richmond, 436;   sent to South Carolina, 437.

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