Making headway on these pages for the Military Park. Again I used old paper from my stash - actually Christmas and some paper scraps. No stamping on this one but I did color the wood chevrons.

Journaling: Stephen Dill Lee (September 22, 1833 – May 28, 1908) was an American soldier, planter, legislator, and author. He was the youngest Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War, and later served as the first president of Mississippi A&M College. Late in life, Lee was the commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans.

Beginning in January 1863 he led a brigade of Mississippi & Eastern Louisiana troops until that May, when he was ordered to take command of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's artillery defending access to the Mississippi River at Vicksburg. Lee fought notably during the Battle of Champion Hill on May 16, where he was wounded when he was hit in a shoulder. Lee served throughout the 1863 Siege of Vicksburg until Pemberton's surrender to Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on July 4, becoming a prisoner of war. While on parole, he was promoted to the rank of major general on August 3, 1863. He was officially exchanged on October 13, 1863. He was then given command of the Department of Alabama & East Louisiana on May 9, 1864.

This statue was erected: June 1909