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Title: The photographic history of the civil war..
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works
Publisher: New York, The Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ngthened. In 1855, he was promoted lieutenant-colonelof the Second Cavalry, and in the spring of the next year hejoined his regiment in Avestern Texas. Pursuit of maraud-ing Indians and study of animals and plants employed hishours, but he suffered from his separation from his wife andchildren, domestic affection being as characteristic a trait ashis genius for battle. In July, 1857, the command of hisregiment devolved upon him, and three months later he wascalled to Arlington on account of the death of his father-in-law, Mr. Custis. Despite the change in his circumstances, hereturned to his command in Texas and remained until the au-tumn of 1859, when he was given leave to visit his family. Itwas during this visit that he was ordered with a company ofmarines to Harpers Ferry to dislodge John Brown. Then,after giving the legislature of Virginia some advice with re-gard to the organization of the militia, he took command ofthe DejJartment of Texas. From afar he watched sadly the nflfi^
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, HEVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. LEES BOYHOOD PLAYGROUND When Robert E. Lee came over from Alexandria as a boy, to play soldier in the gardens and grounds aroundthis beautiful mansion overlooking the Potomac, he could hardly have thought of its occupation during hislife-time by a hostile force determined to bend his native State to its will. When he was graduated from WestPoint in 1829 and proudly donned the army blue, he little imagined that thirty-two years later, after he hadpaced his room all night in terrible perplexity, he would doff the blue for another color sworn to oppose it. Theestate about Arlington house was a fair and spacious domain. Every part of it had rung in his early youthand young manhood with the voice of her who later became his wife. He had whispered his love in its shadedalleys, and here his children had come into the world. Yet here stand men with swords and muskets readyto take his life if they should meet him on the field of battle. Arlington, once fa

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