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Article: Robert E. Lee: 'A wonderful loser'; Defeated general sought to unify.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 21, 2006
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Byline: Melissa McIntire, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Robert E. Lee distinguished himself as a general during the Civil War, but how he surrendered his army and returned to civilian life immortalized him as a great American.
Now, 199 years after his birth on Jan. 19, 1807, he is still revered for how he put the war behind him and encouraged others to do the same.
"I don't know of another American between 1865 and 1870 who did a better job of bringing this country back together than Lee did," says James I. Robertson Jr., a history professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg and author of "Robert E. Lee: ...
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