. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . n war-time on threeoeeasions only: one was in tlie field,about 02 (i3; the second in Kieh-niond m ; and the third imme-diately after the surrender, at IdsRichmond home. Several of theportraits resulting have ajjpeared inother volumes of tliis history; allthe rest are presented with this chap-ter. Lees first sitting ])rodnced thefull-length on page 235, Volume II,and the full-face on the page pre-ceding this—the popular portrait,much Hthographod and engraved,but rarely shown, as here, from anorigiiial photograph, with the expre
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . n war-time on threeoeeasions only: one was in tlie field,about 02 (i3; the second in Kieh-niond m ; and the third imme-diately after the surrender, at IdsRichmond home. Several of theportraits resulting have ajjpeared inother volumes of tliis history; allthe rest are presented with this chap-ter. Lees first sitting ])rodnced thefull-length on page 235, Volume II,and the full-face on the page pre-ceding this—the popular portrait,much Hthographod and engraved,but rarely shown, as here, from anorigiiial photograph, with the expres-sion not ilistorted into a false amia-bility, but calm and dignified as innature. Lees second sitting wasbefore Vannersons camera in Rich-mond, 18C3. Richmond ladies hadmade for their hero a set of shirts,and had begged him to sit for a por-trait, Lee, yielding, courteouslywore one of the gifts. The amateurshirtraaking is revealed in the set ofthe collar, very high in the neck, asseen in the photographs on this ()ther negative of tliis second oc-. LEE AT THE HEIGHT OF lUS FAME 18U3 AS PRESENTED IN THIS CHAPTER AND IN OTHER VOLUMES
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