Death of General Robert E. Lee at Lexington, Va, October 12th 1870, Aged 62 Years Frame Style:Canvas Wrap 19th Century — a group

19th Century — a group portrait engraving of statesmen

or as a thoughtful gift for cocktail lovers

the Sixteenth President rendered in the somber idiom reserved for martyrs

the old general of Tippecanoe sits for posterity — a Whig hero rendered in the confident line of a country still convinced its westward appetite was destiny

the war still hardening into its long shape

Death of General Robert E. Lee at Lexington, Va, October 12th 1870, Aged 62 Years Frame Style:Canvas Wrap 19th Century — a groupDeath of General Robert E. Lee at Lexington, Va, October 12th 1870, Aged 62 Years a mourning lithograph for the Confederacy's defeated icon, who slipped away not on a battlefield but in a quiet college town, five years into a peace that still did not know what to do with him. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the