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Article: Lee the educator committed to character.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2005
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Byline: Richard G. Williams Jr., SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
After the War Between the States, Gen. Robert E. Lee accepted the presidency of a struggling college in the remote Shenandoah Valley village of Lexington, Va.
The war had crippled Virginia's economy and, along with it, the prospects of Washington College. The school's buildings and library had suffered extensive damage and pillaging during Union Gen. David Hunter's raid in June 1864. Only four of the school's professors remained, and the student body had dwindled to 40 young men. Though the school's rich history included an endowment of stock by George Washington, its outlook seemed rather ...