http://wyrk.com Today's Country And Your All-Time Favorites Fri, 24 May 2013 23:35:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://wyrk.com/why-robert-e-lee-never-returned-home/ http://wyrk.com/why-robert-e-lee-never-returned-home/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:00:32 +0000 Dale Mussen http://wyrk.com/?p=67490 A little bit of history you may not have known.  As battles during the Civil War intensified in Virginia, Robert E. Lee and his wife fled their estate overlooking Washington, D.C.  In 1863 the U.S. government confiscated the entire 11-hundred acre estate for non-payment of $92 in taxes. 

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