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Robert E. Lee (1807–1870)

This photograph is one of six images that Mathew Brady took of Robert E. Lee upon his arrival home in Richmond. The date was April 16, 1865, Easter Sunday, a week after Lee had surrendered to Grant at Appomattox.


Mathew Brady (1823–1896)
Albumen silver print, 1865
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

 
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