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title	:	In Search of Robert E. Lee
author	:	Lawliss, Chuck.
publisher	:	Combined Publishing
isbn10 | asin	:	0938289748
print isbn13	:	9780938289746
ebook isbn13	:	9780585100166
language	:	English
subject	Lee, Robert E.--(Robert Edward),--1807-1870--Pictorial works, Lee, Robert E.--(Robert Edward),--1807-1870--Homes and haunts--Pictorial works, Historic sites--Virginia--Pictorial works.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	E467.1.L4L28 1996eb
ddc	:	973.7/30/92
subject	:	Lee, Robert E.--(Robert Edward),--1807-1870--Pictorial works, Lee, Robert E.--(Robert Edward),--1807-1870--Homes and haunts--Pictorial works, Historic sites--Virginia--Pictorial works.

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Page 3 In Search of Robert E. Lee Chuck Lawliss Image not available COMBINED BOOKS Pennsylvania

Page 4 Disclaimer: Some images in the original hard copy book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook. First published in the United States of America in 1996 by Combined Books, Inc. For information, address: COMBINED BOOKS, INC. 151 East 10th Avenue Conshohocken, PA 19428 Distributed internationally by Greenhill Books, Lionel Leventhal, Ltd., 1 Russell Gardens, London NW11 9NN. Copyright 1996 by Chuck Lawliss Photographs Copyright 1996 by Chuck Lawliss All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electrical or otherwise without first seeking the written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data In search of Robert E. Lee / Chuck Lawliss p. cm. ISBN 0-938289-74-8 1. Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 18071870Pictorial works. 2. Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 18071870Homes and hauntsPictorial works. 3. Historic sitesVirginiaPictorial works. I. Title. E467.1.L4L28 1996 973.7'30'92-dc20 96-30219 CIP First Edition, First Printing, 1996 Printed in the United States of America

Page 5 Image not available Contents Introduction 9 In Search of Robert E. Lee 13 Epilogue 99 Guide to Robert E. Lee Sites 101 Index 117

Page 6 Image not available Of war I sing, war worse than civil, waged over the plains of Emathia, and of legality conferred on crime; I tell how an imperial people turned their victorious hands against their own vitals; how kindred fought against kindred; how, when the compact of tyranny was shattered, the forces of the shaken world tended to make mankind guilty; standards confronted hostile standards, eagles were matched against each other, and pilum threatened pilum. What madness was this, my countrymen? Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) 44 B.C. in The Civil Wars (Pharsalia)

Page 7 Image not available Louisiana Monument, Gettysburg

Page 8 Image not available The 69th Pennsylvania Monument at Gettysburg

Page 9 Introduction A bronze equestrian statue, identified by the one word "Lee," stands on Monument Avenue in Richmond, the capital of the state Robert E. Lee loved so much and sacrificed so much for. The statue on its pedestal stands sixty feet tall. This is imposing, but the statue is elevated too high to be seen properly. From the base, about all one can see is Traveller's stomach and the heels of Lee's boots. From a distance, the statue could be of any man on any horse. The author Henry James wrote that something in the figure suggested "a quite sublime effort to ignore, to sit, as it were, superior and indifferent...." Like his statue, Lee sometimes seems to have been elevated too high to be seen properly, and at first glance, he does seem superior and indifferent. Yet few Americans have ever been so loved. The Confederate general, considered a traitor by many Yankees, a man whose citizenship was not restored until a century after his death, has become Image not available The equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee (right), by Jean Antoine Mercie, towers over Monument Boulevard in Richmond. A telephoto lens has accomplished what the naked eye can'tcompress the distance separating the viewer from the statue so that it can be seen clearly. Over the years, biographers have attempted to do something similarsee beyond the legend to find something morea flaw, a human frailty, a transgression. Can someone go through life without a demerit? Yet all they have found is a great man, deceptively simple in his greatness; a man who saw his duty and did it.

Page 10 one of the nation's greatest and most beloved heroes. Historian Thomas L. Connelly wrote, "To the postwar South, he was the rationale of the Lost Cause, the proof of the argument that the righteous do not always prevail. To the nation, Robert E. Lee became the tragic hero figure, who represented all that was good and noble in a bad cause."

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