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• Lee, Eleanor Agnes    b. February 27, 1841  d. October 15, 1873
  Folk Figure, Author. Called simply "Agnes," she was the third daughter and fifth child of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Anna Custis Lee. Like her three sisters, she never married chiefly because the General simply could not let go of his girls. However, there was one young soldier who was determined to make Agnes his bride - but he got nowhere since the General proclaimed him too "unsettled" to take a wife. Agnes attended the Virginia Female Institute in her youth and...[Read More] (Bio by: Kathleen)
  Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
   
• Lee, George Washington Custis 'Custis'    b. September 16, 1832  d. February 18, 1913
  Civil War Confederate General. Though an accomplished man in his own right, he is better remembered as the eldest son of Robert E. Lee. Raised an 'Army brat' and thus often denied daily contact with his father, he was educated in a series of private boarding schools, lastly at the mathematics academy of Benjamin Hallowell. At 17 he received an appointment to West Point from President Zachary Taylor and at the Academy had, as did his father before him, an outstanding academic record. Custis...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
  Plot: Lee Crypt in the Lee Chapel
   
• Lee, Henry 'Light-Horse Harry'    b. January 29, 1756  d. March 25, 1818
  Revolutionary War Continental Army Officer, US Congressman. The father of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee, his lightning raids against the British during the American Revolution earned him the nickname "Light-Horse Harry." He also wrote the famous epitaph of George Washington, "First in War, first in Peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Born in Leesylvania, Prince William County, Virginia, he graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1773...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
  Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
   
• Lee, Mary Anne Randolph    b. October 1, 1808  d. November 5, 1873
  Folk Figure, Wife of General Robert E. Lee. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis & Mary Ann Randolph Fitzhugh. The Lee family lived at Arlington House, which was inherited by Mary. Unfotunately, the house was seized by the Union because Mary was handicapped & unable to pay the new tax they had installed, and the home's property was turned into a burial ground (now present-day Arlington Nat'l Cemetery) for the dead soldiers. (Bio by: Heather from VA)
  Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
  Plot: Inside a crypt in the museum
   
• Lee, Robert Edward [original burial site]   b. January 19, 1807  d. October 12, 1870
  Civil War Confederate General. He is remembered for leading the Army of Northern Virginia to the brink of victory in the Civil War. Born to a Virginia family of nobility but little money, his father was Revolutionary War General, Virginia Governor, and Congressman Light Horse Harry Lee, his mother was Ann Hill Carter Lee of the distinguished Carter family, and his Lee collateral relatives included two signers of the Declaration of Independence. By the time young Robert arrived his father's...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
   
• Lee, Robert Edward   b. January 19, 1807  d. October 12, 1870
  Civil War Confederate General. He is remembered for leading the Army of Northern Virginia to the brink of victory in the Civil War. Born to a Virginia family of nobility but little money, his father was Revolutionary War General, Virginia Governor, and Congressman Light Horse Harry Lee, his mother was Ann Hill Carter Lee of the distinguished Carter family, and his Lee collateral relatives included two signers of the Declaration of Independence. By the time young Robert arrived his father's...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
   
• Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh 'Rooney'    b. May 31, 1837  d. October 15, 1891
  Civil War Confederate Major General, US Congressman. He was the son of Robert E. Lee, was commissioned into the US Army in 1857 and resigned in 1859, becoming a planter. At the start of the Civil War, he was commissioned a Captain in the Confederate Cavalry and made Major in the Western Virginia Volunteers. In April 1862, he was promoted Colonel of the 9th Virginia Cavalry Regiment and participated the Antietam Campaign. He was promoted Brigadier General and commanded the 3rd Cavalry Brigade at...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
   
• Traveller    b. 1857  d. 1870
  War Horse, American Civil War. Traveller's Civil War history parallels his famous master Robert E. Lee. Attempts by Lee, astride Traveller, to lead battle charges were discouraged by his men who would surround him, sending him back to the rear, with shouts, "Lee to the rear," knowing the twosome would be the primary target of Union sharpshooters and his death would be detrimental to the South. From the back of his horse...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
  Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
  Plot: Outside Lee Chapel Museum, Basement level, Lee Office entrance
   

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