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Robert E. Lee
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  • An hour later, she called my office to tell me that "Robert E. Lee" was on the phone.†   (source)
  • We take William's Oldsmobile to the Robert E. Lee Hotel.†   (source)
  • Robert E. Lee Ewell!†   (source)
  • Or Robert E. Lee, who, many years after the war, in a dying delirium, announced, "Strike the tent!"†   (source)
  • On April 9, Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Union General Grant at Appomattox.†   (source)
  • Of course, on the battlefield, McClellan got chopped up bad by Robert E. Lee, but that didn't matter to Mr. Hart a bit; it was the beauty of the plan that counted.†   (source)
  • In the morning, the check would be tucked neatly beneath the statue of Robert E. Lee that his father had carved from a piece of driftwood, and his mother would rub his back and promise to deposit it at the bank as his father ate his breakfast.†   (source)
  • Barely two months after V-J Day, the Klan in Atlanta burned a 300-foot cross on the face of Stone Mountain, site of a storied rock carving of Robert E. Lee.†   (source)
  • In reverse order: Georgia (another nod to General George Patton, my namesake); Roberta (Robert E. Lee); Davie (Jefferson D.);Teddie (Roosevelt); Ulyssa (S.†   (source)
  • Henry said that the rebels had a brilliant commander, the general Robert E. Lee.†   (source)
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  • ROBERT E. LEE RAIN GREETED THE BOYS of Easy Company as they awoke and looked out at Suribachi's great squat bulk on Tuesday, February 20.†   (source)
  • Cleon Hubbard was represented by Robert E. Lee Wilbanks.†   (source)
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy is buried on a slope near the former home of Robert E. Lee, in Arlington National Cemetery, the place he so admired just a few weeks before his death.†   (source)
  • Robert E. Lee's invasions of Union states in 1862 and again in 1863 produced northern echoes of southern calls for defense of home and family.†   (source)
  • The family's real-estate friend dated from the days when Brenda had still been spry enough to be taken for a run now and then in Robert E. Lee Park.†   (source)
  • -from a letter of Robert E. Lee Mr. Mason: How do you justify your acts?†   (source)
  • "Now, I could go on and on with the names of my relatives, but perhaps I'll focus on the two names you'll recognize, General Robert E. Lee and Mr. Stonewall Jackson.†   (source)
  • M.C. led me to a bedroom with a high ceiling, fireplace and a bed so high off the ground and with bedposts so lustrous that I thought maybe Robert E. Lee had slept here.†   (source)
  • I needn't remind you that all the Kellers are cousins to General Robert E. Lee.†   (source)
  • Bleys stood there and called things, like Robert E. Lee at Chancellorsville, and we took them.†   (source)
  • I walked her to the Lincoln Memorial and lectured her on Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stephen Douglas, Mary Todd, Andrew Johnson, John Wilkes Booth, Dr. Samuel Mudd, Edwin M. Stanton, Salmon P. Chase, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Simon Legree.†   (source)
  • Oh, shoot, that was about three and a half years ago, when you was still goin' to the Robert E. Lee Beauty Shop in Jackson.†   (source)
  • No one had told me the Robert E. Lee part.†   (source)
  • And I was hoping you'd take me to the Robert E. Lee for lunch," Miss Fredericks say.†   (source)
  • On the third floor, Mother gaggles over a canopy bed where Robert E. Lee slept.†   (source)
  • We'd driven to the Robert E. Lee for dinner last night.†   (source)
  • "--the Robert E. Lee Hotel," Miss Celia finish.†   (source)
  • " I get in Stuart's car and he takes me to the Robert E. Lee for dinner.†   (source)
  • Incredibly, a bleary-eyed Robert E. Lee is reveling in the moment.†   (source)
  • After the war, Robert E. Lee applied for a pardon for his acts against the United States.†   (source)
  • For one of the few times in his adult life, Robert E. Lee is stymied.†   (source)
  • If Robert E. Lee can't get the job done, then Booth will have to do it for him.†   (source)
  • Ah—Robert E. Lee?†   (source)
  • Then, on April 9, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, General Robert E. Lee and his beloved Army of Northern Virginia surrendered.†   (source)
  • After several bloody battles and costly, prolonged campaigns, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the Virginia town of Appomattox Court House.†   (source)
  • Bryan, this is Robert E. Lee Key.†   (source)
  • When I'd visited death row a few weeks before that call from Robert E. Lee Key ,I met with five desperate condemned men: Willie Tabb, Vernon Madison, Jesse Morrison, Harry Nicks, and Walter McMillian.†   (source)
  • With Judge Robert E. Lee Key's peculiar comments still running through my head, I went through the mound of records until I found the transcripts from Walter McMillian's trial.†   (source)
  • I even challenged Judge Robert E. Lee Key's override of the jury's life sentence, though I knew the reduction of an innocent man's death sentence to life imprisonment without parole would still have been an egregious miscarriage of justice.†   (source)
  • "Skeeter," Liza Presley says before I make it past the coffee urns, "did I hear you were at the Robert E. Lee a few weeks ago?"†   (source)
  • I thought about how if Judge Robert E. Lee Key hadn't overridden the jury's verdict of life imprisonment without parole and imposed the death penalty, which brought the case to our attention, Walter likely would have spent the rest of his life incarcerated and died in a prison cell.†   (source)
  • At seven o'clock on a cool November night, guests will arrive at the Robert E. Lee Hotel bar for the cocktail hour.†   (source)
  • District attorney Ted Pearson had to be concerned about the new Batson decision; he knew veteran civil rights lawyers like Chestnut and Boynton would not hesitate to object to racially discriminatory jury selection, even though he wasn't too worried about Judge Robert E. Lee Key taking those objections seriously.†   (source)
  • Before I got fired for accusing Mr. White Manager of wearing a hair piece, I used to clean the ballrooms at the Robert E. Lee Hotel.†   (source)
  • Twice at the Robert E. Lee if you include the disaster date, and three more times sitting on my front porch for drinks before he drove home to Vicksburg.†   (source)
  • Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body--my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.†   (source)
  • Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant†   (source)
  • FOREWORD JUNE 1863 I. The Armies On June 15 the first troops of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee commanding, slip across the Potomac at Williamsport and begin the invasion of the North.†   (source)
  • In February, 1865, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee threw their weight behind a measure to enroll slaves in the army—with the assumption, although not the explicit authorization, that they would be freed as a reward for such service.†   (source)
  • In 1928, his father, Cleon, hired my grandfather Robert E. Lee Wilbanks to represent him in a land dispute.†   (source)
  • Unlike the American forces (which included among them a young Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee) that took a year to make that journey during the Mexican-American War of 1846, Oswald will make the trip in just one day.†   (source)
  • Second, as time passes and it becomes slowly apparent that the war was lost at Gettysburg, Longstreet gives as his opinion what he believes to be true: that the battle was lost by Robert E. Lee.†   (source)
  • Arlington was once home to the family of Robert E. Lee and was turned into a cemetery during the Civil War by Union troops so that the Confederate general might never again be tempted to live in the family mansion that still dominates the grounds.†   (source)
  • He told the amazing historical anecdote of Seth's father, Cleon, hiring Lucien's grandfather Robert E. Lee Wilbanks to handle a land dispute in 1928.†   (source)
  • Michael Shaara - The Killer Angels Maps by Don Pitcher To Lila (old George)… in whom I am well pleased TO THE READER This is the story of the Battle of Gettysburg, told from the viewpoints of Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet and some of the other men who fought there.†   (source)
  • Without invitation, he launched into history and explained to Portia, and at times throughout the afternoon to Jake as well, that Robert E. Lee Wilbanks had been horn during Reconstruction and had spent most of his life laboring under the belief that slavery would one day return.†   (source)
  • The cold, hard truth, however, is that Robert E. Lee's dwindling army is reduced to just 50,000 men—only 35,000 of them ready to fight.†   (source)
  • It comes in the form of Robert E. Lee, who has spent the afternoon on horseback, trying to find his own army.†   (source)
  • Robert E. Lee was already a highly decorated war hero, while Grant was a lieutenant and company quartermaster.†   (source)
  • General Robert E. Lee rides forth from the Confederate lines, into the no-man's-land separating his dwindling force from the vast Union forces.†   (source)
  • General Robert E. Lee has been up all night yet still looks crisp and composed as he rides, backlit by the rising sun, into Rice's Station.†   (source)
  • As if to underscore this point, members of Grant's staff tentatively ask Robert E. Lee for permission to go behind Confederate lines.†   (source)
  • The Confederate army, under the command of General Robert E. Lee, has been pinned inside the city for more than 250 days by Union forces under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant.†   (source)
  • And, of course, there were Robert E. Lee's 350,000 missing rations, neatly stacked in a Richmond railway siding instead of being packed on the train that Lee expected in Amelia Court House.†   (source)
  • In a best-case scenario, Lincoln's general in chief, Ulysses S. Grant, will trap Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his army inside Petersburg, forcing their surrender.†   (source)
  • As with the nuggets of information he'd learned as a quartermaster, Grant tucked these observations away and then made keen tactical use of them during the Civil War—just as he is doing right now, sitting alone in Petersburg, thinking of how to defeat Robert E. Lee once and for all.†   (source)
  • While John Wilkes Booth is still in Newport, a hungry Robert E. Lee is in Amelia Court House, Ulysses S. Grant is racing to block Lee's path, and Abraham Lincoln stands on the deck of USS Malvern as the warship chugs slowly and cautiously up the James River toward Richmond.†   (source)
  • As Booth and Lucy depart Newport long before their supper can he delivered, Robert E. Lee's soldiers are marching forty long miles to dine on anything they can find, all the while looking over their shoulders, fearful that Grant and the Union army will catch them from behind.†   (source)
  • She was also second cousin to Robert E. Lee.†   (source)
  • Well, my guest to-day is from such a place, Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in the beautiful Southland, with memories of good old General Robert E. Lee and of that brave soul, John Brown who, like every good Booster, goes marching on—"†   (source)
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