BGuthrie Photos: Natl Archives -- Elizabeth Brown Pryor ("Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Letters")

Natl Archives -- Elizabeth Brown Pryor ("Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Letters"):

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Description of Pictures: To commemorate the 200th birthday of Robert E. Lee, Elizabeth Brown Pryor discusses her new book, "Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Letters". Using recently uncovered documents and letters, Pryor sheds new light on aspects of Lee's life that are more complex and contradictory—and far more fascinating—than the familiar icon. Pryor contends that "Lee's letters and papers reveal a man who is frequently as confused, passive, and vulnerable as he is conscientious and brave".
The speaker was introduced by Trevor Plante, who had recently made news himself.

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1. NALEE_070620_005.JPG: Trevor Plante. From http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/06/08/news/doc46685f32505aa749149013.txt Original Lincoln document found in National Archives By Pete Yost Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The National Archives on Thursday unveiled a handwritten note by Abraham Lincoln exhorting his generals to pursue Robert E. Lee's army after the battle of Gettysburg, underscoring one of the great missed opportunities for an early end to the Civil War. An archives Civil War specialist discovered the July 7, 1863, note three weeks ago in a batch of military papers stored among the billions of pages of historical documents at the mammoth building on Pennsylvania Avenue. The text of Lincoln's note has been publicly known because the general to whom Lincoln addressed it telegraphed the contents verbatim to the front lines at Gettysburg. There, the Union army's leaders failed for more than a week to aggressively pursue Lee following his defeat. A week after Lincoln's note, the Confederate army slipped across the Potomac River into Virginia and the war continued for two more years. Though Gen. George Meade led the Northern troops in the battle at Gettysburg that marked the turning point of the war, he has always been faulted for not closing in and destroying Lee's army. At a news conference, archivist Trevor Plante said he was looking for something else last month when he found Lincoln's note tucked away in a drawer among other papers. His reaction was "wow" when he recognized the handwriting and Lincoln's signature. Lincoln's note says "the rebellion will be over" if only "Gen. Meade can complete his work." Lincoln says he wants the "substantial destruction of Lee's army." Plante's find reinforces "Lincoln's desperation to turn Gettysburg not just into victory, but decisive victory that stops the bloodshed," said historian Allen Guelzo, director of Civil War era studies at Gettysburg College. The importance of the newly discovered document is that it is in Lincoln's own handwriting, pinning down in time what he was thinking. The accuracy of the long-known telegram communicating Lincoln's thoughts was not in doubt. At the same time, "there are always risks" relying on documents by a third party for what Lincoln was saying or writing, said Guelzo.
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- Plante, Trevor appears on:
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  - 2013_MD_Lincoln_Speakers_130323 Abraham Lincoln 2013 Symposium @ National Archives II -- Speakers
  - 2013_MD_Lincoln_Other_130323 Abraham Lincoln 2013 Symposium @ National Archives II -- Other
  - 2012_DC_ECWAA_121116 Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Panel -- Effects of the Civil War on American Art
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  - 2011_DC_Feeding_111103 Natl Archives -- Gerald Darsch and Kathy Evangelos ("Feeding the Military")
  - 2011_MD_Lincoln_Speakers_110326 Abraham Lincoln 2011 Symposium @ National Archives II -- Speakers
  - 2010_DC_FNA_101201 Foundation for the Natl Archives -- "Discovering the Civil War, Part Two: Consequences" reception
  - 2008_DC_NADGF_080109 Natl Archives -- Drew Gilpin Faust ("This Republic of Suffering")
  - 2007_DC_Plante_070209 Natl Archives -- Trevor Plante (Lincoln's Telegrams)
2007 photos: Equipment this year: I used the Fuji S9000 almost exclusively except for the period when it broke and I had to send it back for repairs. In August, I bought a Canon Rebel Xti, my first digital SLR (vs regular digital) which I tried as well but I wasn't that excited by it. Trips this year: Two weeks down south (including Graceland, Shiloh, VIcksburg, and New Orleans), a week at a time share in Costa Rica over my 50th birthday, a week off for a family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with sidetrips to Dayton, Springfield, and Madison), a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con with a side trip to Michigan for two family reunions, a drive up to Niagara Falls, a couple of weekend jaunts including the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Vicksburg, and a December journey to three state capitols (Richmond, Raleigh, and Columbia). I saw sites in 18 states and 3 other countries this year -- the first year I'd been to more than two other countries since we lived in Venezuela when I was a little toddler. Ego strokes: A photo that I took at the National Archives was used as the author photo on the book jacket for David A. Nichols' "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution." I became a volunteer photographer at both Sixth and I Historic Synagogue and the Civil War Preservation Trust (later renamed "Civil War Trust").. Number of photos taken this year: 225,000.
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