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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 2 : birth.-career as officer of Engineers, United States army . (search)
Chapter 2: birth.-career as officer of Engineers, United States army.
Seventy-five years after the birth of Washington, Robert Edward, the fourth son of General Henry Lee and Anne Hill Carter, was born at Stratford, Westmoreland County, Virginia, on the 19th of January, 1807.
If he inherited much from a long and illustrious line of paternal ancestors, he no less fell heir to the strong characteristics of his mother's family, one of the oldest and best in Virginia.
The unselfishness, gen rles Carter, of Shirley, who resided in his grand old mansion on the banks of the James River, some twenty miles below Richmond, then, as now, the seat of an open, profuse, and refined hospitality, and still in the possession of the Carters.
Mrs. Henry Lee's mother was Anne Moore, and her grandmother a daughter of Alexander Spottswood, the soldier who fought with Marlborough at Blenheim, and was afterward sent to Virginia as governor in 1710, and whose descent can be traced in a direct line fr
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 16 : return to Richmond .-President of Washington College .--death and Burial. (search)
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Index. (search)