{"id":800,"date":"2011-02-24T07:59:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T14:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cumberlandcivilwar.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2011-02-24T07:59:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T14:59:02","slug":"fitzhugh-lee-returns-and-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/fitzhugh-lee-returns-and-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFitzhugh Lee Returns, and Returns\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89\" style=\"width: 174px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6076\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89 \" title=\"Fitzhugh Lee\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/files\/2010\/09\/HD_leeWHF1-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fitzhugh Lee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>D. W. Thompson, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/library\/Thompson2_1963.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Fitzhugh Lee Returns, and Returns<\/a><\/em> (Carlisle, PA: Hamilton Library Association, 1963).<\/p>\n<p>D. W. Thompson\u2019s essay discusses Confederate <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6076\" target=\"_blank\">General Fitzhugh Lee\u2019s<\/a> connection with <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9312\" target=\"_blank\">Carlisle<\/a>, Pennsylvania. General Lee was stationed at Carlisle Barracks before the Civil War, returned as a Confederate general who shelled the town in the summer of 1863, and came back again in 1896 to speak at the Carlisle Indian School. As Thompson explains, Superintendent <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/16692\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Henry Pratt<\/a> invited Lee and Union <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/12010\" target=\"_blank\">General Oliver Otis Howard<\/a> \u201cto show that North and South were united with East and West in a common life, hope, and allegiance.\u201d Yet some Carlisle residents believed that Pratt should not have invited Lee. As an editorial in the Carlisle <em>Herald<\/em> argued, \u201cit was a mistake not because [Lee] was a rebel but because he did a disgraceful and unsoldierly thing that can not be justified.\u201d This essay also has several related documents, including transcripts of two letters that Lee wrote and excerpts from newspaper articles.<\/p>\n<p><em>This essay has been posted online with permission from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicalsociety.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cumberland County Historical Society<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D. W. Thompson, Fitzhugh Lee Returns, and Returns (Carlisle, PA: Hamilton Library Association, 1963). D. W. Thompson\u2019s essay discusses Confederate General Fitzhugh Lee\u2019s connection with Carlisle, Pennsylvania. General Lee was stationed at Carlisle Barracks before the Civil War, returned as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/fitzhugh-lee-returns-and-returns\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cFitzhugh Lee Returns, and Returns\u201d<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5039,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-history","category-reconstruction-1865-1880"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}