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Week of May 4: A former Confederate general puts on a US Army uniform

Author
Virginia Audio Collective
Published
Tue 04 May 2021
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Fitzhugh Lee boarded the last boat from Havana to Florida. The US was about to declare war on Spain. Americans speculated that Lee, a former Confederate cavalry officer and later governor of Virginia, would be put in command of the forces to liberate Cuba. Which didn’t exactly happen. Though he did command an occupying force after the Spanish-American war.

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