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Resignation Letter
- When
- 1863-08-08
- Where
- unspecified
Lee sent a resignation letter to Davis on August 8, 1863, following the defeat at Gettysburg.
Lee sent a letter of resignation to President Davis on August 8, 1863. Davis refused Lee's pleas to retire. The passages do not specify the exact location of the correspondence, only the date and the refusal.
Sources
- Robert E. Lee Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-02
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.