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Camp Chair Used by Robert E. Lee
Brass plaque on chair reads,
"Camp Chair of Robert E. Lee
used at the field headquarters
Second Battle of Manassas
War Between the States
Presented by Joshua Thomas Baltimore MD"
If not for a brass plaque on the worn and repaired seat of this simple folding chair, it might seem unremarkable. Joshua Thomas, the chair's donor, severed as one of Lee's clerks and later gave it to the Maryland Historical Society. |