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Lee monument dedicatedBy TAMCLA BAKERlammybOharatd-mall.comThe last time Gen. Robert E. Lee came to Sharpsburg. the distant roar came from muskets and cannon.This time, the noise was only thunder.Civil War buffs huddled Saturday evening on the porch of the new Newcomer Museum on Md. 34 east of Sharpsburg to dedicate a controversial monument to the Confederate general. On a rise to the left of the building, the 24-foot statue of Lee astride his legendary mount, TVaveller, cut a solitary figure in the rain.-I wish we could have had a little better weather,” said John Howard, superintendent of the Antietam National Battlefield. “But why should today be any different thanany other day?'The nasty weather was appropriate. Howard said, because “nothing about this has been easy.Lothian, Md.. resident William F. Chaney ran into difficulty almost horn the time he purchased and restored the historic farmstead where the statue was erected. Local officials and historians objected to his use of the 11th-century Newcomer house as a museum and gift shop and to his plans to put up statues of Lee and other Confederate military leaders.Last December, the Washington County Historic District Commission voted 3-2 to deny Chaney permission to erect the Lee statue on the property.Maaaa turn to LIB, AB
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