This is a massive volume titled “LEE OF VIRGINIA.” The book meas. approx. 7.75 x 10.75 and runs approx. 586 pages. The full title reads “LEE OF VIRGINIA 1642-1892: BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES OF THE DESCENDANTS OF COLONEL RICHARD LEE.” The volume also includes information on numerous other families with a Lee connection. The volume was published in Philadelphia in 1895.

The book has a replaced library type binding done in a wine color with the title in gold on the spine. The second page of the book has a period ink inscription that reads “JOSEPH PACKARD JR, FROM THE EDITOR, BALTIMOE, 31 MAY 1895.” The editor was Edmund Jennings Lee, M.D.

The volume has 30 portraits including two of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and wife, Fitzhugh Lee and W.H. F. Lee. There are also 29 other illustrations such as the Lee Coat of Arms, Arlington House, Stratford Hall, the Washington Coat of Arms etc…

The book is well bound but some of the interior has water stains and light to moderate surface dirt on page edges. One piece of tissue covering a plate is loose.

The book is inscribed to Joseph Packard Jr. who was a Confederate Veteran. Packard was born on April 10, 1842 in Alexandria, Virginia. He graduated from Kenyon College in 1860 with a degree in law.

On July 7, 1861 at Camp Johnston, Virginia he enlisted as a Private in the 1st Company of the 1st Virginia Light Artillery also known as The Rockbridge Artillery. The battery served with the Army of Northern Virginia in all of its campaigns. Private Packard rose through the ranks being promoted 6th Corporal on April 22, 1862, 4th Corporal on June 3, 1862, 2nd Corporal on September 9, 1862 but was reduced to Private on November 15, 1862. At some unknown point during his service Packard was made a 2nd Lieutenant and served as Ordnance Officer on the staff of Lieutenant Colonel Briscoe G. Baldwin. Packard was present at the surrender on April 9, 1865.

After the war he lived in Baltimore and practiced law. He died there on November 24, 1923 and is buried in Greenmount Cemetery.

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