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8.5" x 10" reading in part Funeral Obsequies. October 15, 1870. Order of Procession. Music. Escort of Honor, Consisting of Officers and Soldiers of the Confederate Army. Chaplain and Other Clergy. Hearse and Pall Bearers. General Lee's Horse..., matted and framed (13.75" x 17.5"). The great and respected General Robert E. Lee died October 12, 1870, two weeks after suffering a stroke. Although the state of Virginia offered to bury him in Richmond, his widow requested that his remains be left in Lexington at his beloved Washington College. Lee had been president of the school for four years, doing much to transform the small regional college into a respected center of higher learning. Soon after his death, the college trustees voted to rename the school Washington & Lee University in his honor. There are only two other known copies of this broadside, at the Virginia State Library and the Virginia Historical Society. Condition: Folds and light foxing, VG. Not removed from frame.