Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1807 - 1870
Biography
President, W&L, 1865-1870. C. in C. Confederate armies, 1865. See Douglas Southall Freeman, R. E. Lee, 4 vls., 1934-35.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Cabinet Cards of Robert E. Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, and other Confederate States of America generals
Collection — Folder 0011: [Barcode: 0000005910]
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0011
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two cabinet card photographs, one of the 1869 painting by Everett B. D. Julio, titled 'The Last Meeting,' of Confederate States of America generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson on their war horses at Chancellorsville, Virginia in 1863 and a highly retouched fictional compilation of the 'President and Generals of the CSA' by photographer D.H. Anderson. The Andrson photograph has Lee on his horse Traveller in the foreground. The images were inscibed and...
Dates:
Unknown
Photograph of the Skeleton of Robert E. Lee's Horse, Traveller
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0014
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of an original photograph of Traveller's skeleton on display.
Dates:
Majority of material found in between 1940-1960
Photographic Postcard, "Lee's Tree"
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0105
Content Description
The photographic postcard is postmarked 1933, has a note written on the back from J. R. Goff to Henry Boley of Lexington, VA. The postcard is a photograph of 'Camp site of Gen. Robert E. Lee during a period of Civil War. Route 60 near Rainelle, West Virginia.'
Dates:
Creation of the postcard ; Creation of the writing, stamped date on the postcard