Selasa, 21 Februari 2017

A One-Sided Friendship: Joseph E. Johnston and Robert E. Lee

In April 1870, Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, both 63 years old, gray and grizzled, sat for a photographer in Savannah, Ga. Lee had about six months to live, Johnston nearly 21 years. In two of three poses from the session, including the one reprinted at right, Lee looks directly across a small …

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