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Studies of Character

“Teach him he must deny himself,” said Lee.  That was the general’s advice to a young mother who brought her infant to him after the War Between the States to receive his blessing.  In his classic four-volume biography R.E. Lee, Douglas Southall Freeman chose this as the incident that best exemplifies Robert E. Lee’s message...