"General" Robert E. LEE
January 19, 1807-October 12, 1870
- BIRTH: January 19, 1807, Stratford Hall Plantation, near Montross, Virginia
Father: "Major General" Henry "Lighthorse Harry" LEE III (January 19, 1756-March 25, 1818)
Mother: Ann Hill CARTER (October 1773-July 26, 1829)
Wife:
Mary Anne Randolph "Molly" CUSTIS (October 1, 1808-November 5, 1873) *Great-granddaughter of Martha WASHINGTON by her first marriage to Daniel Parke CUSTIS
- MARRIAGE: June 30, 1831, Arlington, Virginia
- FACTS: Lee was the Confederacy's most famous general in the American Civil War. He attended West Point (graduating second in his class) and became an engineer in the United States Army, serving with distinction in the Mexican-American War. As the Civil War broke out he resigned his commission and joined the forces of the South. In 1862 he was made commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, and over the next three years became famous as he led the army to a series of victories over the larger and better-equipped Union forces. He was defeated at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg and finally surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on 9 April 1865, effectively ending the war.
After the Civil War, Robert E. Lee became president of Washington College in Virginia, a post which he held until his death. After his death the school was renamed as Washington and Lee... Lee's horse Traveller served him throughout the Civil War and is now regarded as one of history's famous steeds.
- DEATH: October 12, 1870, Lexington, Virginia; buried at Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
Children:
George Washington Custis "Boo" LEE (September 16, 1832-February 18, 1913)
Mary Custis LEE (July 12, 1835-November 22, 1918) *married Hunter DE BUTTS
William Henry "Rooney" Fitzhugh LEE (May 31, 1837-October 15, 1891) *married Charlotte WICKHAM in 1859; married Mary Tab BOLLING on November 28, 1867
Anne Carter LEE (June 18, 1839-October 20, 1862)
Eleanor Agnes LEE (1841-October 15, 1873)
Robert Edward LEE JR (October 27, 1843-1914)
Mildred Childe LEE (February 1846-1905)
Pedigree:
|Henry LEE II
|Henry LEE III |
| |Lucy GRYMES
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|--"General" Robert E. LEE
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| Charles CARTER
|Ann Hill CARTER |
|Ann Butler MOORE
SOURCE 1: Family Trees of Thomas Jefferson and Other Famous Americans
SOURCE 2: Who2.com
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