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  • Jan 19, 1807
    Robert E. Lee is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. The future leader of the Confederate troops in the Civil War, he's namechecked in The Bellamy Brothers' 1979 country hit "You Ain't Just Whistlin' Dixie"
    Apr 9, 1865
    Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders at the Appomattox courthouse in Virginia, bringing an end to the Civil War. Hank Williams Jr. will ponder a different outcome in 1988 with his country hit "If The South Woulda Won"
    Oct 12, 1870
    Former Confederate general Robert E. Lee dies from pneumonia in Lexington, Virginia. He will be remembered more than a century later in The Bellamy Brothers' country hit "You Ain't Just Whistlin' Dixie"

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