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Almost all of the Confederate monuments are located along Seminary Ridge. This is the Virginia Memorial to Robert E. Lee and his Virginians. On July 3, 1863, Lee sat on his horse, near this spot and watched the battle unfold. As his men, those that had survived the carnage at the wall on Cemetary Ridge, came back across the field Lee moved out to meet them and gently encouraged them, that the defeat was not their fault, but his. Dad says that Lee has been called many things by historians, but that the best description he's heard was from Shelby Foote who said that Lee was "a great man who wasn't always a great general". |
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