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095 - After The Sound Of Bugles Faded: The Last Years of Robert E. Lee - Part 2
About this episode:
We begin Part II of our post-war story of R. E. Lee. It is early 1867 and, we remind you that in March of that year, there was to be a fund-raising event for Washington College in, of all places, New York City. 500 were to attend. Men of means and power - all potential donors - and much was expected from this highly anticipated gathering. And yet, a month before the gala, on the 4th of February, a disturbance in Lexington that created dark clouds for not only Lee but the college. We now pick up with the story…
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