An 1856 letter from Robert E. Lee to his wife, Mary
Many thanks once more to Kelleigh Nelson for this interesting letter from Robert E Lee. To refresh my readers memory this famous civil war General’s short history follows: Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general whose early actions in the American Civil War led to his appointment as the overall commander of the Confederate States Army near the end of the war. He led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy’s most powerful army, from 1862 until its surrender in 1865, earning a reputation as one of the war’s most skilled tacticians. History should teach humans wisdom, bur so often it makes a monkey…