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    Photo of Robert E. Lee fetches $23K for charity

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Goodwill worker who spotted a photograph of Confederate General Robert E. Lee has helped the charity make $23,000 in an online auction.

    The tintype photograph was in a bin, about to be shipped out, when a worker grabbed it and sent it to the charity's local online department. The item was then put up for auction, which closed Wednesday night.

    "It would have gone to our outlet store where everything is sold by the pound," Goodwill spokeswoman Suzanne Kay-Pittman said Thursday. She estimated the tintype would have fetched a dollar and change based on its weight.

    The sale was a record for the charity. The previous record was an early 1900s watercolor that sold for $7,500 in 2009 to a museum in New Orleans, The Tennessean reported.

    The newspaper first reported the photograph sale.

    Kay-Pittman said Thursday that the successful bidder lives in Virginia but officials didn't immediately know his name.

    "We're doing a happy dance," she said. "We're beyond thrilled."

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    Online: onlinegoodwill.com

     

    32 comments

    • VIET VET 942  •  8 mths ago
      I wondered where my photo went. Someone stole it from me.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  8 mths ago
      George p hide behind and takl that crap pussie// and garr duh// ethan sucks /mical ding dong/ so goffy f you /guru piss off
    • Garr Obo  •  8 mths ago
      Screw the South and everything it represented.
      • JaxGator 8 mths ago
        Here's an idea.....go screw yourself. Idiot.
      • possum 8 mths ago
        Come on down here, with that attitude, and see how long you last, dear garr obo!!
      • Infidelpigdog 8 mths ago
        So did you get some attention, sweetie?
    • Dannyl  •  8 mths ago
      Lincoln should have been tried for treason plus if think he was for the black person your wrong He supported the Corwin admendment to the constition if passed slavery would have been forever the only it did not pass the south had done left the Union
    • JED  •  8 mths ago
      5 major battles in the state of Virginia. Highest out of all the southern states. There was no such thing as Confederate Nation, only states, and the "Northern Boys" were misguided immigrants for the most part. Lincoln, Grant and Sherman committed the biggest war crimes of this country. All in order to secure the strangle hold on the whole nation by Federal Government.
      • George Pìmpington 8 mths ago
        Yeah and owning slaves was ok, with your inbred incestuous ancestors. And you wonder why none of you speaks proper english?
      • JED 8 mths ago
        Yeah it was ok all over the world at the time ... for the most part ...even the Northerners had slaves ... the funny part about the whole thing is when the Federals turned west directly after the war and were aggressive towards the Indian Nations ... which blows your theory to bits. I care not about proper englitch as my ancestors were Cherokee ... nor do I care about your idiotic attempts to defend tyranny.
      • Jawgia 8 mths ago
        George...were you a slave??LOLOLOL
    • Ethan  •  8 mths ago
      As a blackman, I have no real qualms Robert E. Lee as a man. Before the war started, he was asked the fight for the north, after deliberating, he choose to fight with the south because he felt he couldn't bear arms against his home state of Virginia. He fought on the wrong side, but he wasn't anti-black or pro-slavery. Fortunately for my GG parents and all of the other slaves, Lincolns army eventually made the south "howl" as Sherman put it, and old "bobby lee" got whipped.

      Jefferson Davis on the other hand, should have been hung from the first tree that would support his boney ass.
    • Micheal  •  8 mths ago
      How many slaves could Lee have bought with that $23,000? Most overrated general in American history imho.
      • CRAIG S 8 mths ago
        Nice to know you could do better. Seems that the Union had plenty of non-slave owners that couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag.
    • Jeremy  •  8 mths ago
      Funny how black and white everything was back then.
    • That Guy  •  8 mths ago
      I thought I misplaced that somewhere, I will have to sue to get it back
    • Humboldt  •  8 mths ago
      oh bobby Lee, if only you had listened to Gen longstreet at gettysburg...never ever order your infantry to attack unsupported uphill thru open terrain, toward an entrenched enforced position defended by artillary!. other than that, I am proud my great grandaddy died fightin fer ya...
      • Humboldt 8 mths ago
        and i dont want to hear about how longstreet dragged his feet. yea, he should have been up earlier. boo hoo. bobby lee should have passed that third day...ap hill should never have ridden into town in the first place...
      • possum 8 mths ago
        I agree with you Homboldt. Sorry about your great grandaddy, mine was one of the lucky ones that were discharged at Appromatox courthouse.
        general Lee didn't make many mistakes, but thaat was oneof them.
    • ItsAllSoGoofy  •  8 mths ago
      Glad they were able to make money off the photo of an anti-American terrorist.
    • I LOVE AMERICA  •  8 mths ago
      How funny, there was no comment page for the YaHoo News story about the Germans detaining two people suspected of perhaps making a bomb and searching an Islamic center. My opinion, every western country should search every mosque in their cities for bomb making materials.
    • totalchaos  •  8 mths ago
      Long Live the south!!!!!
    • totalchaos  •  8 mths ago
      A true American Hero without a doubt,,man had balls and a vision!!!!!!
    • Phineas61  •  8 mths ago
      i have a similar portrait of Bush getting head from Obama
    • jr  •  8 mths ago
      I have a similar portrait of Lee getting head from Lincoln.
    • Ella Guru  •  8 mths ago
      I doubt the photo pictured is a Tintype. By it's case and frame, I would guess that is a Degurotype (where's spell check???) photograph.
    • Caesar  •  8 mths ago
      I wonder how much my photo would fetch in ........... GEORGIA!!

      =)
    • Half Liger Half Wholphin  •  8 mths ago
      To me, there is no difference between Robert Lee and Timothy McVeigh. Both were violent terrorists and traitors to the United States.
    • 38 Special  •  8 mths ago
      That Southern redneck, Lee, he isn't worth the tin that he's printed on.
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