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This is number 354 of 585 Primary Sources.
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Caption: General in chief of the Confederate armies. In 1859, Lee commanded a unit of U.S. marines in the capture of John Brown, an abolitionist who had taken over a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). Lee was a Unionist, but when Virginia (his native state) seceded he followed, and assumed leadership of the Confederate armies in the East. He reinforced Stonewall Jackson's army in the Shenandoah Valley campaign (1862) and resisted Union general George B. McClellan's troops in Richmond shortly thereafter. He fought McClellan to a draw at Antietam, Maryland, in the fall of 1862, lost to the Union army at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1863), and surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia (1865).
Photograph by Julian Vannerson (1863). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [LC-B8172-0001 DLC].
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