TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LATE GENERAL WILLIAM C. LEE, BY THE ACQUISITION, RESTORATION, PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE HOMEPLACE OF GENERAL WILLIAM C. LEE IN DUNN, NORTH CAROLINA, AND THE ERECTION OF MONUMENTS AND MARKERS AT OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SAME; BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN RELATION TO THE LIFE AND U.S. MILITARY SERVICE OF GENERAL WILLIAM C. LEE AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS THEREOF; BY THE ACQUISITION, COLLECTION AND PRESERVATION OF DOCUMENTS, RELICS, MOMENTOS AND RECORDS OF THE LIFE AND U.S. MILITARY SERVICE OF GENERAL WILLIAM C. LEE; TO FOSTER AND PROMOTE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE OF AND INTEREST IN THE LIFE AND U.S. MILITARY SERVICE OF GENERAL WILLIAM C. LEE; AND BY THE PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF SPECIAL EVENTS TO COMMEMORATE THE LIFE AND U.S. MILITARY SERVICE OF THE LATE GENERAL WILLIAM C. LEE.