Invitation sent to General Robert E. Lee to serve as Vice-Chancellor:
"In September, acting upon the rumor that he was unhappy at Washington College, the committee offered the post [Vice-Chancellorship] to Robert E. Lee. With characteristic grace he declined." -Arthur Ben Chitty, RECONSTRUCTION AT SEWANEE, 1857-1872, 1954,1993
"Deciding what to do with the Washington College offer, once Judge Brokenbrough had appeared at his door and made it, was another kind of struggle for Lee. Earlier he had turned down the vice-chancellorship of the University of the South and a job inquiry from the University of Virginia. The first was church, the second state, controlled." -Marshall W. Fishwick, LEE AFTER THE WAR, The Greatest Period in the Life of a Great American, 1963
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 "One [Lee] of the noblest Americans who ever lived and one of the greatest captains known to the annals of war." -Sir Winston Churchill, HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, 1956-1958  |
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"I have met many of the great men of my time, but Lee alone impressed me with the feeling that I was in the presence of a man who was cast in a grander mold and made of a different and finer metal than that of all other men. He is stamped upon my memory as a being apart and superior to all others in every way, a man with whom none I ever knew, and very few of whom I have ever read, were worthy to be classed." -Lt. Colonel Garnet Wolseley, "A Month's Visit to the Confederate Headquarters," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, January, 1863
Lee Circle, New Orleans, Louisiana.
ROBERT E. LEE
1807 - 1870
COMMANDER IN CHIEF
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
1861 - 1865
Placed by
JULIA JACKSON CHAPTER NO.4
CHILDREN OF THE CONFEDERACY
General R. E. Lee Monument and V.M.I. Cadets, Richmond, Va.
Lee Monument, Richmond, Va.
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 Our Heroes and Our Flags, including General Robert E. Lee, the Richmond monument, and Bishop-General Leonidas Polk. 
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Interior of Lee Memorial Chapel, Washington and Lee University, Lexington,
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"The death in 1870 of Gen. Robert E. Lee brought the early era of mourning for war casualties to a new stage. Virginia sculptor Edward Valentine designed the recumbent figure marking General Lee's final resting place in a special chapel at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, where Lee had served as president after the war. As Pamela Simpson notes in her essay, the sculpture portrays Lee as a Christian knight, a warrior aristocrat who fought with valor and died with no shame. To this day, pilgrims approach it with hushed reverence." -Cynthia Mills, MONUMENTS TO THE LOST CAUSE: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory, 2003
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