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Stars from Gen. Robert E. Lee's Uniform, about 1865
These stars were sent to family friend Belle Harrison in May 1865.
Lee did not usually wear the proper collar insignia of a Confederate general -- three gold stars in a wreath. Instead he wore only the three gold stars of a colonel -- a rank he held in the US army for only twenty-three days before resigning to join the Confederacy on April 20, 1861. |