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Posted 2008-04-08

Actor Portrays Lee In Making Decision To Join Confederacy

By Jeff Mellott

HARRISONBURG - The tales of his pacing while deciding to resign from the U.S. Army at the outbreak of the Civil War were true, said Al Stone as Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monday. "I spent an equal amount of time on my knees in prayer," Stone told an audience of about 200 that included James Madison University ROTC cadets at Court Square Theater. The process by which Lee made his decision 147 years ago has lessons for today's Army officers, said JMU military science...

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