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Photographer: Brandon Fletcher
Taken: June 22, 2010
Caption: Robert E. Lee
Additional Description: Newly married to the granddaughter of George Washington's wife, twenty-four-year-old 2nd Lt. of Army Engineers Robert E. Lee brought his bride Mary Custis to Old Point Comfort in the spring of 1831, where, as his older brother Charles Carter Lee wrote, "he and his bride would retreat to the walls and waves of Castle Calhoun."
Portrait, William E. West, 1838
Courtesy Washington and Lee University
Submitted: July 23, 2015, by Brandon Fletcher of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p317224
File Size: 0.059 Megabytes

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