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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: February 16, 2015
Caption: Robert E. Lee
Additional Description: This c. 1861 lithograph of Robert E. Lee by Charles G. Crehen (after Mathew Brady) hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC.

“Robert E, Lee was one of the best soldiers in the pre-Civil War army, He had an impeccable carreer at West Point and served with distinction in the Mexican American War, Lee was handsome and he could be charmingly sociable, although as he grew older he became more reserved; his sense of responsibility to his family may have sobered him, as did his religious awakening as an adult, And he had married into the family of George Washington, with all that that entailed in terms of the burden of the past, Lee served diligently in the U.S. Army; famously, when civil war came, he sided with Virginia over the nation. When he resigned from the army, his old mentor Winfield Scott told Lee, ‘I think you've made the greatest mistake of your life!’” — National Portrait Gallery
Submitted: July 19, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p316301
File Size: 1.682 Megabytes

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