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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, gene ace and that of Washington were not only in the same county but only a short distance apart.
The landscape of that section of Virginia was the first that greeted the eyes of each.
The Potomac River, in all its grandeur and beauty, flowed past Stratford as well as Pope's Creek.
Alexandria afterward became his town, as it had before been the town of Washington.
The married life of the two was respectively passed at Mount Vernon and Arlington, the same river rolling at their feet, while the ol
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 7 : Atlantic coast defenses.-assigned to duty in Richmond as commander in chief under the direction of the Southern President . (search)
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Index. (search)