![]() At the photographer’s request General Lee reluctantly put on his uniform and posed at the back of his residence with his son, General George Washington Custis Lee (left), and his chief of staff, Colonel Walter H. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Lee, who had returned to the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, after his surrender to General Ulysses S. In the aftermath of the Civil War, Brady sought out General Robert E. “This photograph is one of the most celebrated images produced by Brady, who established his reputation in the 1850s as the preeminent portraitist in New York and Washington, D.C. This is one in a series taken by Brady in the basement below the back porch of the estate and from the original wet plates in the Brady-Handy collection. ![]() Brady.” The photograph was taken at Lee’s estate in Richmond, Virginia in April of 1865, only days after his surrender to Ulysses S. Robert Alexander Compliments of his friend, M.B. Inscribed by one of the earliest photographers in American history, Mathew Brady, on a mount, “To Col. Lee flanked by his son, General George Washington Custis Lee, on his right and Colonel Walter Taylor on his left. Photographic portrait of General Robert E. ![]() Lee Signed by Mathew Brady.īRADY, Mathew. ![]() Original Photographic Portrait of Robert E. ![]()
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