Person:Robert Lee (22)

m. 18 Jul 1793
  1. Algernon Sydney Lee1795 - 1796
  2. Charles Carter Lee1798 - 1871
  3. Anne Kinloch Lee1800 - 1864
  4. Commodore Sydney Smith Lee1802 - 1869
  5. Robert Edward Lee1807 - 1870
  6. Catherine Mildred Lee1811 - 1856
m. 30 Jun 1831
  1. George Washington Custis Lee1832 - 1913
  2. Mary Custis Lee1835 - 1918
  3. William Henry Fitzhugh Lee1837 - 1891
  4. Anne Carter Lee1839 - 1862
  5. Eleanor Agnes Lee1841 - 1873
  6. Robert Edward Lee1843 - 1914
  7. Mildred Childe Lee1845 - 1905
  8. Mildred Childe Lee1846 - 1873
Facts and Events
Name Robert Edward Lee
Alt Name General Robert E Lee
Gender Male
Birth[1] 19 Jan 1807 Stratford Hall, Westmoreland, Virginia, United States
Military[1] From 1829 to 1861 Colonel, United States Army
Marriage 30 Jun 1831 Arlington, Virginia, United Statesto Mary Anne Randolph Custis
Military[1] From 1861 to 1865 General, Confederate States Army
Death[1] 12 Oct 1870 Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States
Burial[1][2] Lee Chapel, Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States
Reference Number? Q165557?
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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Robert E. Lee, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

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    Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general who served the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War, during which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army. He led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy's most powerful army, from 1862 until its surrender in 1865. During the war, Lee earned a solid reputation as a skilled tactician, for which he was revered by his officers and men as well as respected and feared by his adversaries in the Union Army.

    A son of Revolutionary War officer Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III, Lee was a top graduate of the United States Military Academy and an exceptional officer and military engineer in the United States Army for 32 years. During this time, he served throughout the United States, distinguished himself during the Mexican–American War, and served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy. Lee married Mary Anna Custis Lee, great-granddaughter of George Washington's wife Martha. When Virginia's 1861 Richmond Convention declared secession from the Union, Lee chose to follow his home state, despite his desire for the country to remain intact and an offer of a senior Union command. During the first year of the Civil War, he served in minor combat operations and as a senior military adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

    Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia in June 1862 during the Peninsula Campaign following the wounding of Joseph E. Johnston. He succeeded in driving the Union Army of the Potomac under George B. McClellan away from the Confederate capital of Richmond during the Seven Days Battles, although he was unable to destroy McClellan's army. Lee then overcame Union forces under John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run in August. His invasion of Maryland that September ended with the inconclusive Battle of Antietam, after which he retreated to Virginia. Lee then won two decisive victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville before launching a second invasion of the North in the summer of 1863, where he was decisively defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg by the Army of the Potomac under George Meade. He led his army in the minor and inconclusive Bristoe Campaign that fall before General Ulysses S. Grant took command of Union armies in the spring of 1864. Grant engaged Lee's army in bloody but inconclusive battles at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania before the lengthy Siege of Petersburg, which was followed in April 1865 by the capture of Richmond and the destruction of most of Lee's army, which he finally surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House.

    In 1865, Lee became president of Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia; in that position, he supported reconciliation between North and South. Lee accepted "the extinction of slavery" provided for by the Thirteenth Amendment, but opposed racial equality for African Americans. After his death in 1870, Lee became a cultural icon in the South and is largely hailed as one of the Civil War's greatest generals. As commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, he fought most of his battles against armies of significantly larger size, and managed to win many of them. Lee built up a collection of talented subordinates, most notably James Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson, and J. E. B. Stuart, who along with Lee were critical to the Confederacy's battlefield success. In spite of his success, his two major strategic offensives into Union territory both ended in failure. Lee's aggressive and risky tactics, especially at Gettysburg, which resulted in high casualties at a time when the Confederacy had a shortage of manpower, have come under criticism.

    ==Early life and career==

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  2. Grave Recorded, in Find A Grave
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