PHOTOGRAPH OF ROBERT E. LEE AND JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON.
Savannah, Geo. D.J. Ryan, Photo. [1870]. Oval photograph, uncolored, 7-3/4" x 10-1/4." Laid down on decorative board, which is lightly dusted. The image is Fine.
The Encyclopedia of Virginia describes the famous photograph as follows:
"Robert E. Lee, at right, with pen in hand, sits at a table with his old comrade-in-arms, Joseph E. Johnston. The two former Confederate generals were photographed in April 1870, in Savannah, Georgia, where an ailing Lee had traveled with his daughter Agnes. As the pair went south by train from Richmond, they were greeted at the stations along the way by adoring crowds. (Among those in the throng at Augusta, Georgia, trying to get a peak at the Confederate war hero was thirteen-year-old Woodrow Wilson). . . During the course of his stay in Savannah, Lee met with Johnston, who was then living in that city and working in the insurance business. The two gray-beards, both sixty-three years old, had not seen each other since the end of the Civil War; the event was captured by photographer David J. Ryan. . . Copies of this photograph were subsequently sold to aid the Ladies' Memorial Association of Savannah which was raising funds for a Confederate monument." Item #39365
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