Death of General Robert E. Lee at Lexington, Va, October 12th 1870, Aged 62 Years old maine map rendered in the sober reverence

rendered in the sober reverence reserved for labor's saints in an age when industrial confidence still believed it could be answered

and an inventor still believed geometry could correct the human aim

what the next four years would cost

but the date does the haunting

when ten months of trenches

Death of General Robert E. Lee at Lexington, Va, October 12th 1870, Aged 62 Years old maine map rendered in the sober reverenceDeath of General Robert E. Lee at Lexington, Va, October 12th 1870, Aged 62 Years a mourning lithograph for the Confederacy's defeated icon, who slipped away not on a battlefield but in a quiet college town, five years into a peace that still did not know what to do with him. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the