Tuesday, August 8, 2017

On this day in 1863,

Robert E. Lee Offers to Resign 

On this day in 1863, in partial response to the viciously negative press of his day, Confederate General Robert E. Lee offered to resign following his loss at Gettysburg and the near simultaneous fall of Vicksburg.  Confederate President Jefferson Davis refused to accept Lee’s resignation.  
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