{"id":88,"date":"2010-09-06T01:10:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T01:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/?p=88"},"modified":"2011-02-14T19:55:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T19:55:50","slug":"fitzhugh-lee-returns-and-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/2010\/09\/06\/fitzhugh-lee-returns-and-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFitzhugh Lee Returns, and Returns\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6076\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89\" 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\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/files\/2010\/09\/HD_leeWHF1-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/files\/2010\/09\/HD_leeWHF1.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fitzhugh Lee<\/p><\/div>\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 a Confederate general who shelled the town in the summer of 1863, and came back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6327,80,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-reconstruction-1865-1880"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}