Bay Area Genealogical Society
www.TxBayAreaGen.org

We intend to -- 

- hold classes so people of all ages can learn how to research;
- offer a support system for beginners to help them along the way; 
- have our members participate by sharing their knowledge;
- promote speakers that can teach us new methods and ideas.

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BAGS Quarterly: Cumulative Table of Contents since December 2001
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      In May 2009, the MSH welcomed a unique traveling exhibit, Lee and Grant. The exhibit will be on display until September 2009. The Museum of Southern History is one of five stops the Lee and Grant exhibit will make in the United States. 
      On October 20, 2007, the Virginia Historical Society opened Lee and Grant, an exhibition that provides a major reassessment of the lives, careers, and historical impact of Civil War generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. The exhibit charts the development of historical thought and popular attitudes toward these significant historical figures in the years since the outbreak of the Civil War. 
      "Visitors will enjoy discovering similarities and differences between Lee and Grant that are rarely pointed out," said Dr. William M. S. Rasmussen, exhibition co-curator and the VHS Lora M. Robins Curator. "These generals have been explored by historians for decades, but Lee and Grant is the first exhibition to present the two men together so that visitors can make decisions about them, side by side, based on facts. We hope that after they view Lee and Grant, visitors will give more thought to the legacies of both generals."
     Lee and Grant is made possible with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. The exhibition presents photographs, paintings, prints, sculpture, clothing and accoutrements owned by the two men, documents written in their own hands, and biographical and historical records to reveal each man in his historical and cultural context and to review the ways each has been remembered for almost 150 years.
     Lee and Grant exhibition highlights include: Grant's handwritten terms of surrender to Lee on April 9, 1865; a 1772 oil on canvas painting of George Washington owned by Mrs. Lee; a December 29, 1862 deed of emancipation signed by Lee; an 1885 original of Grant's Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant; the coat and sword of Lee before 1864; a 1782 oil on canvas portrait of Light-Horse Harry Lee by Charles Wilson Peale; an 1838 oil on canvas painting by William Edward West of Lee in his Lieutenant of Engineers dress uniform; and Lee's signed copy of his father's Funeral Oration on the Death of General Washington.