Monte franks biography of albert lea

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McClanahan ]. In a remote corner of the Trinity Episcopal Cemetery in Galveston, Texas, a plain marble head stone marked the last resting place of a United States naval officer, killed at the Battle of Galveston. The inscription reads: "Edward Lea, Lieut. Commander, U. The mental image of the Confederate officer embracing his dying son was to grip Galvestonians for decades thereafter and point out one of the horrors of the American Civil War.

At a remote distance in southern Minnesota, the breadth of the nation away, there stands a modern city, a rail junction of 25, population, and its large, neighboring lake, both of which bear the name of "Albert Lea," namesakes of the same Confederate major. Albert Lea visited the Minnesota site only twice, the first time when he led a United States army expedition that discovered the lake and camped out on the townsite, at that time an expanse of trees and prairies, in July, The second visit occurred in June, , when the municipal officers of Albert Lea, Minnesota, invited the ex-Confederate Colonel Lea to be their guest of honor at their fortieth anniversary celebration.

Lee , and who was a personal confidant and relative by marriage of General Sam Houston. Albert M. At age thirteen, he entered East Tennessee University at Knoxville now the University of Tennessee and became one of its youngest graduates. Lea was commissioned a lieutenant in the Thirteenth United States Artillery, but because he was gallant enough to wish to please Magruder's fiancee by trading assignments, Lea ended up in the Seventh Infantry Regiment at Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory, at that time considered to be on the extreme western frontier.