Comments on: The Return of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Sword https://blog.knife-depot.com/the-return-of-gen-robert-e-lees-sword/ The official blog of Knife Depot Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:26:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Robert Jackson Eubank https://blog.knife-depot.com/the-return-of-gen-robert-e-lees-sword/#comment-299471 Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:26:50 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=1295#comment-299471 My name is Robert Jackson Eubank, I am directly related to Swords Lee who is a direct lineal descendant of “Light Horse Harry Lee”. Robert E. Lee’s father. As well another interesting fact is the only unit I served with in the United States Army is 1/4 CAV. The only unit Robert E Lee Received command for as a Colonel for the United States before he declined Lincoln’s offer to be promoted to Major General to serve in the Union to fight the Confederacy. I did not know this till years later after getting out as an Airborne Paratrooper. My father bears a striking resemblance to Robert E. Lee. History does have a very funny way of making lots of full circles

]]> By: BOBBY DAN QUISENBERRY https://blog.knife-depot.com/the-return-of-gen-robert-e-lees-sword/#comment-298105 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:28:52 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=1295#comment-298105 In reply to Keith Salyer.

REL had several swords, so no need to say BS! I know he had one that belonged to Washington and there was one presented him by Maryland and there were more. REL may have been in possession of more than one of Washington’s swords, being the grandson of Washington through his wife, and preserver of many of Washington’s possessions he kept at Arlington House his home, which the North stole during the war and robbed blind including many of Washington’s things.

]]> By: BOBBY DAN QUISENBERRY https://blog.knife-depot.com/the-return-of-gen-robert-e-lees-sword/#comment-298101 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:17:18 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=1295#comment-298101 In reply to Sherry.

It was once George Washington’s sword wasn’t it?

]]> By: Roger https://blog.knife-depot.com/the-return-of-gen-robert-e-lees-sword/#comment-233385 Mon, 17 Jan 2022 22:44:35 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=1295#comment-233385 In reply to Mike.

The sword is dated 1863. The Maryland campaign that involved the capture of Harper’s Ferry and the Battle at South Mountain, culminating in the Battle of Antietam, occurred in 1862.

]]> By: Keith Salyer https://blog.knife-depot.com/the-return-of-gen-robert-e-lees-sword/#comment-230232 Sun, 12 Dec 2021 13:31:12 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=1295#comment-230232 I call BS on this. My grandfather Homer Salyer the second gave the sword to a museum when I was a child. Both my mother and father went with him. I have legal proof and photographs of it. One photograph of the sword has a sign with my grandfathers name saying he gave the sword to the museum. So the sword was not lost.

]]> By: D o n https://blog.knife-depot.com/the-return-of-gen-robert-e-lees-sword/#comment-217949 Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:23:49 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=1295#comment-217949 In reply to Sherry.

Sherry are you related to Robin and Pat

]]> By: D o n https://blog.knife-depot.com/the-return-of-gen-robert-e-lees-sword/#comment-217948 Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:20:26 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=1295#comment-217948 In reply to Sherry.

Are you related to Robin and Pat Lee

]]> By: Gary https://blog.knife-depot.com/the-return-of-gen-robert-e-lees-sword/#comment-198562 Sun, 07 Mar 2021 02:48:47 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=1295#comment-198562 In reply to Sherry.

I have bought a Civil War era sword recently that is very plain in that the blade lacks any etching or decoration.
It does have something stamped into the guard that is a oval surrounding
three stars and E L
Could this be shortened initials Lee used, perhaps when he was a Colonel?

]]> By: Mark S Carroll https://blog.knife-depot.com/the-return-of-gen-robert-e-lees-sword/#comment-179534 Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:50:10 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=1295#comment-179534 In reply to Sherry.

Good for the Lee’s cousin. I am related to General Lee through the Corbin line.

]]> By: Sherry https://blog.knife-depot.com/the-return-of-gen-robert-e-lees-sword/#comment-178856 Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:08:10 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=1295#comment-178856 This is not true I am a descendant if Robert E Lee and I have his 1st sword. It will never be sold or go out of the Lee Family.
Southern Girl

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