In the 1850s Robert E. Lee was a dashing, dark-haired officer; by this year of Gettysburg, his hair was white
This gallant officer must have been 58 years of age, and was serving with ... 
again in heart a child, while his white-hair host and comrade, breathed over him 
...... was Rachel Donelson, the daughter of the leader, a black-eyed, black-haired
... [DOC] [TLE] (c. 1861-1863) Joseph Howell Boydston, Farmer and ... - Pinterest [PAR] Robert E. Lee) graduated near the bottom of his class at the West Point Academy.