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Speech at unveiling of Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond
R Gray Williams delivers an address in the Virginia General Assembly hall at the unveiling of Rudolph Evans statue of Robert E. Lee. He praises Lee's nobility, recalls Virginia secession and Lee's loyalty to Virginia over the United States, and honors Lee's role and character amid Civil War events.
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Robert E. Lee
Evans
Richmond
Winchester Bar
House of Delegates
Virginia General Assembly
Robert B. Lee
Rudolph Evans
New York
Virginia
Byrd
Senate
House
Marshall
General Lee
Harry Flood Byrd
General Assembly
Harry Byrd
George Washington
John Garland Pollard
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Washington
Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Mr. Evans
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Lee
Robert
Mount Vernon
John Bell
Constitutional Union Party of the Nation
John Janney
Union of States
Iar
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South Carolina
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Confederate States
Potomac
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Mexico
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Francis Preston Blair
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Antietam
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Chancellorsville
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Stonewall Jackson
Gettysburg
Longstreet
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Venable
Erick Maurice
Spottsylvania
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Times
Maurice
Duke of Wellington
Grant
Petersburg
Confederacy
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North Carolina
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Franklin Street
England
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Washington College
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