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Long, A. L. (Armistead Lindsay) (1827-1891) Memoirs of Robert E. Lee

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00267.272 Author/Creator: Long, A. L. (Armistead Lindsay) (1827-1891) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Book Date: 1886 Pagination: 707 p. ; 25 x 18 cm. Order a Copy

Title continues "His Military and Personal History embracing a large amount of information heretofore unpublished...together with incidents relating to his private life subsequent to the war." Published by J. M. Stoddart & Company, New York and B.F. Johnson and Co., Richmond, Virginia. Long served as military secretary to General Lee.

Long, Armistead Lindsay, 1827-1891
Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

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