Robert Edward Lee (Alexandria, Virginia, C.S.A. General-in-Chief)
b. 1807-01-19 d. 1870-10-12
Alexandria, Virginia, General. Westmoreland County, Virginia, native. Son of Henry Lee III and Anne Lee. Married to Mary Custis Lee in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 30, 1831. Father of George Washington Custis Lee, Mary Custis Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, Anne Carter Lee, Eleanor Agnes Lee, Robert Edward Lee Jr., Mildred Childe Lee. Graduate of U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1829. Served in U.S. Army as lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain, lieutenant colonel, and colonel, from 1829 to 1861. Served in C.S.A. as brigadier general, general, and general-in-chief of the army from 1861 to 1865. President of Washington College from 1865 to 1870.
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Bibliography
William L. Barney, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 187-188.
Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters (New York: Viking, 2007), 95.
Find A Grave, "Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870)," Memorial #615, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/615/ (accessed April 4, 2019).
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Lee, Robert Edward. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198478 (November 12, 2026).
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