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Lee birthday observance set

The Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans

will sponsor its annual observance of the birthday of Gen. Robert

E. Lee with a ceremony scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 23, at noon

in the rotunda of the State Capital in Atlanta.

Gen. Lee, who served 32 years in the United States

Army before the War Between the States, was born Jan. 19, 1807,

in Virginia and died in Lexington, Va., in October 1870

while serving as the president of Washington and Lee University,

then called Washington College.

During the War Between the States, Gen. Lee served

as Commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia

and later as General-in-Chief of the Confederate States

Army. Several companies of Fayette County men served in the

Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Lee.

The public is invited to attend the ceremony. For

more information, call 770-631-2630.

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