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Hunter Holmes McGuire and Captains Morrison and Smith accompanied his grieving widow

General Lee's assignment was to defeat or seriously damage the Federal Army of the Potomac and then threaten the city of Washington itself

The hardships increased along with the bitter cold

America’s young men gleefully pulled on new uniforms

Never Against Virginia boat Hunter Holmes McGuire and CaptainsArlington Estates, April 20, 1861 In the spring of 1861, he was described as the most promising officer in the United States Army. Hero of the Mexican War, superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, capturer of the radical John Brown, Col. Robert Edward Lee was highly thought of by old "Fuss and Feathers" himself General Winfield Scott. On April 18th, at the request of Abraham Lincoln, Lee was summoned to Washington and met with