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General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
Photographer: Brian Scott
Caption: General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
Additional Description: In the bloodiest day of the war, with both sides suffering enormous losses, Lee withstood the Union assaults. He withdrew his battered army back to Virginia while President Abraham Lincoln used the Confederate reversal as an opportunity to announce the Emancipation Proclamation which put the Confederacy on the diplomatic and moral defensive, and would ultimately devastate the Confederacy's slave-based economy.
Submitted: September 27, 2015, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p331228
File Size: 0.017 Megabytes

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