Robert E. Lee Comes to Washington College

History
Written By Marshall Byler

The first in our Institutional History series, this video explains why trustees of Washington College decided to elect Robert E. Lee as president in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War.

For more information about this series, please contact info@thegeneralsredoubt.us, and be sure to check out our website at www.thegeneralsredoubt.us.

Special thanks to Washington and Lee University Special Collections and Archives for providing much of the material referenced in this video.

Marshall Byler

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