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The Last Battle of the Civil War : United States versus Lee, 1861-1883 /
Seventeen years after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the Supreme Court was the scene of one final, dramatic confrontation between the Lee family and the United States government. In The Last Battle of the Civil War, Anthony J. Gaughan recounts the fascinating saga of United States v....
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge, La. :
Louisiana State University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Seventeen years after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the Supreme Court was the scene of one final, dramatic confrontation between the Lee family and the United States government. In The Last Battle of the Civil War, Anthony J. Gaughan recounts the fascinating saga of United States v. Lee, known to history as the ôArlington Case.ö Prior to the Civil War, Mary Lee, Robert E. Lee's wife, owned the estate that Arlington National Cemetery rests on today. However, after the attack on Fort Sumter, the Union army seized the Lees' Arlington home and converted it into a national cemetery as we. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780807137758 |