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Title: The photographic history of the civil war..
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works
Publisher: New York, The Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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LEE IN 1867 PRESIDENT OF WASHINGTON COLLEG1 ■.. LATERWASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY LEE IN 18G9 THE YEAR BEFORE Ills DEATH AT THE ACE<)E SIXTY-THREE
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THE DECLINING YEARS In these portraits the bright eyes of the daring leader have lost none of their fire; the handsome headstill remains erect. In October, 1805, Lee had been installed as president of Washington (!ollege atLexington, Virginia, later named in his honor Washington and Lee University. Under his manage-ment new chairs were founded, the scheme of study enlarged, and from the moral side it would havebeen impossible to secure finer results. Lees greatness of soul was shown in the way in which heurged the Southern people loyally to accept the result of the war. On the morning of October 12,1870, at the age of sixty-three, he died—mourned throughout the Union which he had helped toreunite, and throughout the civilized world, which had watched with admiration his gallani fight andnobility of soul. To those who saw his composure under the greater and lesser trials of life,wrote Colonel William Preston Johnson, his intimate friend, and his justice and forbearance withthe most u

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