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[LEE, GEORGE WASHINGTON CUSTIS, Major General, C.S.A.]. GEORGE S. COOK. Albumen print of Lee in uniform, approx. 5 x 3 in., framed and glazed. Lee graduated first in the Military Academy class of 1846, served in the engineers corps. Appointed an aide to C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis, he served in that capacity he almost to the war's end, when he finally obtained a field command. Attached to Ewell's corps, he was captured in the closing days of the war.