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Lee, Henry (1756–1818) – Encyclopedia Virginia
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Sir Winston Churchill called General Robert E. Lee, âone of the noblest Americans who ever lived.â
Please let me call to your attention that Tuesday, January 19, 2021, is the 214th birthday of Robert E. Lee, whose memory is still dear in the hearts of many Southerners. Why is this man so honored in the South and respected in the North? Lee was even respected by the soldiers of Union blue who fought against him during the War Between the States.
During Robert E. Leeâs 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Commander and grandson of US President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee Collegeâs Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.
A Year in Reading: Books in the Time of COVID Tevi Troy © Cover images via Amazon; background: Ruben Sprich/Reuters
Well, dear reader, it’s been a miserable year in lockdown, but at least there has been time for reading. I have read 80 books and counting during this COVID period, so I wanted to take this holiday opportunity to share some of my reading highlights with you.
The pandemic did cause me to change some reading habits. The difficulty of getting new physical books in the earliest days of the lockdown caused me to shift at least partially to e-books. While there was some adjustment there, I also came to appreciate some of the e-book advantages, including the abilities to email quotes to oneself and to search a book for any word, not just the ones the publisher was willing to index. The scarcity also made me value print books even more, and my efforts to exchange them with friends in the early days of the pandemic reminded me of stories of Abraham L