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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
eral officer with whom he personally served in Mexico made special mention of him in official reports. General Persifer Smith wrote: I wish to record particularly my admiration of the conduct of Captain Lee, of the engineers—the soundness of his judgment and his personal daring being equally conspicuous. General Shields referred to him as one in whose skill and judgment I had the utmost confidence. General Twiggs declared his gallantry and good conduct deserve the highest praise, and Colonel Riley bore testimony to the intrepid coolness and gallantry exhibited by Captain Lee when conducting the advance of my brigade under the heavy flank fire of the enemy. In the subsequent years of peace Lee was assigned first to important duties in the corps of military engineers with headquarters at Baltimore, from 1849 to 1852, and then served as superintendent of the military academy at West Point until 1855, when he was promoted brevet lieutenant-colonel and assigned to the Second cavalry