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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC07081.02 |
From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1880s |
Title | George L. Andrews to H. K. Green confirming that the probable authorship of a letter by Robert E. Lee |
Date | 9 February 1889 |
Author | Andrews, George L. (1828-1899) |
Recipient | Green, H.K. |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Content Description | After reading the letter from Robert E. Lee addressed to his son Boo (George Washington Custis Lee) at West Point (GLC07081.01), Andrews confirms that it is the sort of letter he would have suspected from Lee. Also reports that G.W.C. Lee was the only son of Lee's enrolled at West Point in 1851. Andrews erroneously believes that the Lee referred to in "that slanderous report against the room of those fine Cadets Lee, Wood, & Turnbull" was Stephen G. Lee, son of Thomas Lee of South Carolina. Andrews was possibly the George L. Andrews who taught French at West Point from 1871 to 1892. Green was a collector. |
Subjects | West Point (US Military Academy) Confederate General or Leader Military History Education Children and Family Alcohol |
People | Andrews, George L. (1828-1899) Green, H.K. (fl. 1889) Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) (1807-1870) Lee, George Washington Custis (1832-1913) |
Place written | West Point, New York |
Theme | Education |
Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
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