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The Robert E. Lee won the race. [191] The steamboat inspired the 1912 song Waiting for the Robert E. Lee by Lewis F. Muir and L. Wolfe Gilbert. [192] In more modern times, the USS Robert E. Lee, a George Washington-class submarine built in 1958, was named for Lee, [193] as was the M3 Lee tank, produced in 1941 and 1942.
Frederick Douglass (c. 1879) opposed the erection of Confederate monuments. John Mitchell Jr. opposed the erection of a Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia. Stories of happy slaves and benevolent slave owners became propaganda to defend slavery and to explain Southern slavery to Northerners.
To command them Buchanan ordered Brevet Colonel [71]: xv Robert E. Lee, conveniently on leave at his home, just across the Potomac in Arlington, Virginia, to "repair" to Harpers Ferry, [71] [78] where he arrived about 10 PM, on a special train. [4]: 564 [79] Lee had no uniform readily available, and wore civilian clothes. [4]: 567 [80]
Dallas removed a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a park on Thursday, after the city council voted to bring it down.
Tennesee observed Lee's birthday from 1917 to 1969 when it was changed to a "special day of observance," but state law requires the governor to proclaim Jan. 19 as Robert E. Lee Day, along with ...
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was a focal point of a deadly white nationalist protest in 2017 has been melted down and will be repurposed into new works of art. The Jefferson ...
In the closing days of the war, Cobb fruitlessly opposed General Robert E. Lee's eleventh hour proposal to enlist slaves into the Confederate Army. Fearing that such a move would completely discredit the Confederacy's fundamental justification of slavery, that black people were inferior, he said, "You cannot make soldiers of slaves, or slaves ...
The raid did not go as expected. Brown hoped to have quickly a small army of runaway slaves, but made no provision to inform these potential runaways, although he got a little local support. Lt. Colonel Robert E. Lee of the U.S. Army was dispatched to put down the raid, and Brown was quickly captured. He was tried for treason against the ...