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May 18, 2018 · Image: The British Newspaper Archive. His eldest son and heir, Offley Francis Drake Wakeman (1836-1865) only came of age in 1857, and the affairs at Coton Hall were briefly managed by his uncle, Offley Penbury Wakeman (1799-1858), 2 nd Baronet of Periswell Hall, in Worcestershire. After over-exerting himself in a cricket match in 1865, Offley ...
Robert E. Lee. Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, toward the end of which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army. He led the Army of Northern Virginia —the Confederacy's most powerful army—from 1862 until its surrender in 1865 ...
Robert E. Lee (1942) Robert E. Lee was a passenger and freight steamer built in 1925 and owned by the Eastern Steamship Lines, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts. With a keel length of 373 ft. (113.8 m) and beam of nearly 54 ft. (16.4 m), the freighter was constructed primarily to carry passengers between Virginia and New York.
Design and construction. SS Robert E. Lee was built in Newport News, Virginia, and finished construction in 1924. The ship had a keel length of 375 feet (114 m), a beam length of 54 feet (16 m), and a depth of 29 feet (8.8 m). The ship was constructed to primarily transport passengers between Virginia and New York.
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In the summer of 1870, Robert E. Lee won a famed steamboat race against Natchez, going from New Orleans to St. Louis, Missouri, a distance of 1,154 miles (1,857 km), in 3 days, 18 hours and 14 minutes. John W. Cannon, the captain of Robert E. Lee, ensured victory by removing excess weight, carrying only a few passengers, and using prearranged barge...
On December 22, 1870 she collided with the Potomac opposite Natchez, Mississippi. The Lee sustained much damage and was run out on a sandbar until she could be raised and repaired. She brought her record cotton cargo of 5741 bales to New Orleans in 1874. When she left New Orleans for Portland, Kentucky, for dismantling, mid-April, 1876, several tho...
The 1910 song "Steamboat Bill" is an extended reference to the Robert E. Lee's race.In 1912 Lewis F. Muir and L. Wolfe Gilbert composed the song "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee", which describes the Robert E. Lee sailing to New Orleans. It was performed by Al Jolson in the 1927 fil...The boat is mentioned in the song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by The Band. The word 'The', which indicates a reference to the steamboat, rather than the general, is unclear on the album v...The steamboat is also mentioned in the song "I wanna go back to Dixie" by Tom Lehrer."A River Steamer Burned; Twenty-One Persons Known To Have Been Lost" (PDF). The New York Times. 1 October 1882.
The following is a web exhibit on The Robert E. Lee, a steam ship that moved barges along the Savannah River of the Leigh Banana Company in Ellenton, South Carolina. The Leigh Banana Case Company (LBC), in the 1940s, was one of the largest employers in Barnwell County. They converted cypress logs into crates, baskets, and boxes.
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But was isn't known so widely is that General Lee's family came from Shropshire, and the family home still exists. For 500 years, the Lee family owned a sizeable chunk of the county in the parish of Alveley, near Bridgnorth. The family, originally-named de la Lee and probably of Norman descent, lived in Coton Hall from the 1300s onwards.
