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Gen. Robert E. Lee

About the Statue

Lee makes up the top portion of the Virginian Memorial. The statue is located along side Confederate Avenue. The monument is much taller then the others. It has statues commemorating soldiers at its base.

Lee's horse has all four feet on the ground. If the statue follows the horse code, Lee was neither killed nor wounded.

Lee did not die in battle, but from an illness on October 12, 1870, and he did not receive any wounds during the Battle of Gettysburg. This doesn't mean Lee has never received any wounds. One of the wounds Lee had received during war was in the Battle of Chapultepec. This was during the Mexican American war in 1847.

Plaque(Front Side):

  • General Robert E. Lee
  • Mounted on "Traveller"

The group represents various types who left civil occupations to join the Confederate Army. Left to right; a professional man, a mechanic, an artist, a boy, a business man, a farmer, a youth.

Plaque Front

(Inscription across the base of Monument):

  • Virginia to her Sons at Gettysburg
  • Erected 1917 by State of Virginia.