Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
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Chapter I
Services in the United States Army
Captain Lee, of the Engineers, a hero to his child—The
family
pets—Home from the Mexican War—Three years in
Baltimore—
Superintendent of the West Point Military
Academy—Lieutenant-
Colonel of Second Cavalry—Supresses “John Brown
Raid” at Harper’s
Ferry--Commands the Department of Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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