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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 1: ancestry. (search)
ur country's history. His father's brother, Henry Lee, the fifth son of the second Richard, marrie to Washington. Light-Horse Harry's father, Henry Lee, of Leesylvania, and Lucy Grymes were masubstituted for the law book in the hands of Henry Lee, and we find him, at the age of nineteen, afedal was a bust of the hero, with the words: Henry Lee, Legionis Equit.: Praefecto Comitia Americanto boot in the days of the Revolution. When Henry Lee's legion was selected to assist in the defenations of the last campaign, and in a letter to Lee himself writes: No man in the progress of the c and in a letter, dated October 20, 1794, to Henry Lee, Esq., commander in chief of the militia armlled after General Winfield Scott. In 1779 General Lee was elected to Congress, and on the death on the war was declared with England in 1812, Henry Lee was living in Alexandria, having moved thereerformed before by his sons, because one, Major Henry Lee, was abroad, one was an officer of the ar[15 more...]
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, genrles 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 4: War. (search)
approved the Constitution before Virginia acted. The debates in her convention on this subject have no equal in intellectual vigor. Mental giants, full-armed with wisdom, fought on either side. In one rank-opposed to the adoption of the Constitution as it came from the hands of its framers — was Patrick Henry, George Mason, Richard Henry Lee, James Monroe, Benjamin Harrison, and William Grayson. In the other were James Madison, John Marshall, Edmund Randolph, Edmund Pendleton, and General Henry Lee, and behind them, as a powerful reserve, was the great influence of Washington. On the final vote friends of the measure secured a majority of only ten votes. The next State to adopt it after Virginia was New York, and she did so by only three votes. North Carolina did not join the Union immediately, and Rhode Island for fifteen months, after the new Constitution had gone into operation. The delay in the action of these States, and the close votes in so many others, was the result
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 16: return to Richmond.-President of Washington College.--death and Burial. (search)
see once more his father's grave, on an island off the coast of Georgia. General Henry Lee (or Light-horse Harry ), in returning from the West Indies, where he had ere his remains now lie. From Savannah, Ga., April 18, 1870, the general wrote Mrs. Lee: We visited Cumberland Island, and Agnes decorated my father's grave with beau suffer her to want. When the fall session of 1870 of the college opened, General Lee was at his post of duty, but his step had lost something of its elasticity, enoted the approaching summons from his Creator. My husband came in, wrote Mrs. Lee, and I asked where he had been, remarking that he had kept us waiting a long torn upon the horizon's verge, Between two worlds life hovered like a star. Mrs. Lee tells us that his whole demeanor during his sickness was that of one who had tp! For the last forty-eight hours he seemed quite insensible of our presence, Mrs. Lee states; he breathed more heavily, and at last gently sank to rest with one dee
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Index. (search)
72, 94, 95, 330, 380, 401; captured, 385. Lee, General, Henry, Light-horse Harry, mentioned, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, II, 12, 14, , , 16, 7, 20, 80; his grave, 410. Lee, General Robert E., birth, 20; ancestry and education; Hamilton, 30; promotion, 31; joins Scott's staff, 33; Lee's horses, 34; at Vera Cruz, 36; battle of Cerro Gordo8; his gallantry, 42; brevetted, 42; letters, 44, 45; Lee's comrades, 47, 48; returns to Virginia, 49; Superints, 61; Christmas at Fort Brown, 63, 64; letters to Mrs. Lee, 66 ; president of a courtmartial, 69; returns to n to Texas, 77; summoned to Washington, 77; notice of Lee, 78-87; resigns his commission, 88; farewell to Arlin153; issues orders, 154, 155; Jackson ordered to join Lee, 156; battle order, 158; gains a success, 162; Malverssness, 261; Gettysburg campaign, 270-298; retreat of Lee's army, 300; crosses Potomac, 307; comments on the cahis military character, 420; a great soldier, 422. Lee, General William H. F., mentioned, 29, 118, 121, 122,