Extra Credit Questions

[Joe Di Cola]

None of this is reported in biographies of either Light Horse Harry Lee or of Robert E Lee.

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Speaking of which, I have also heard that George Washington was preserved in alcohol and in a coffin with a glass lid. Throughout most of the 19th century, the wooden top of the casket would be removed on his birthday so that the public could view the father of their country. Supposedly the glass cracked one year as the wood lid was sealed down, and air seeped in enough to evaporate some of the alcohol. When the coffin was opened the next year, a portion of Washington's nose was exposed to the air and disintegrated.

I understand the same thing happened to Michael Jackson
(no relation to Stonewall Jackson)

Michael Jackson's nose disintegrated before he died.