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- Build that bridge men!!!
- When war broke out between the u.s. and Mexico in 1846 Lee was sent Lee to Texas. He served as an assitant engineer under General John E. Wool. All his superiours were impressed with the young brave virginian. He also suprivised the construction of Bridges for Wool's campaign.
- MEXICAN WAR
- Yet, when Lee had to make his choice, he could not bring himself to fight against Virginia or on the side of the abolitionists. On the advice of Lee’s old commander, Winfield Scott, Lincoln offered Lee command of the Union army in Virginia. But Lee declined the offer and instead resigned from the U.S. Army. He offered his services to the Confederacy.
- secession is nothing but revolution
- The civil war
- Lee could have had many positions of wealth and prestige. Instead, he chose to spend his last years as president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. He soon raised the small college to high levels of scholarship. He established schools of commerce and journalism. Young men from all parts of the South flocked to General Lee's school. It was named Washington and Lee University after his death.
- After The War
- We need more colleges!
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