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Gettysburg Day 2: General Lee’s Plan

Facts about Gettysburg Day 2: General Lee’s Plan during the Battle Of Gettysburg of […]

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Lee to the Rear

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A Texas private’s long-forgotten account of Robert E. Lee’s brush with death at the Battle of the Wilderness.

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In 1813, with a green squadron hewn from the shores of Lake Erie, Oliver Hazard Perry challenged British might

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Lee’s Unwritten Memoir

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Why didn’t Robert E. Lee write his memoirs?

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Mark Lee Gardner, author, historian and general renaissance man of the West, has written a dual biography of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

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Interview: Robert J. Conley / Cherokee Author

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Robert J. Conley, a Cherokee from Oklahoma, is an acclaimed short story writer, novelist, historian and essayist who has won three Spur Awards from Western Writers of America. In this interview with Wild West magazine he discusses his work.

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Robert Charles Tyler: Last American Civil War Confederate General Slain in Combat

by Stuart W. Sanders6/12/20067/6/2016

Against impossible odds and following orders issued half a year earlier, Robert Charles Tyler became the last Confederate general slain in Civil War combat.

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THE CLASSICS: Four Years With General Lee

by HistoryNet Staff6/12/20068/4/2016

Reviewed by Peter S. Carmichael By Walter Herron Taylor Of all Robert E. Lee’s […]

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