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Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) was the son of Henry Lee III, and probably the most famous member of the Lee family. He served as Confederate general in the United States Civil War and later as President of Washington and Lee University , which was named for him and for George Washington .
The Robert E. Lee won the race. [191] The steamboat inspired the 1912 song Waiting for the Robert E. Lee by Lewis F. Muir and L. Wolfe Gilbert. [192] In more modern times, the USS Robert E. Lee, a George Washington-class submarine built in 1958, was named for Lee, [193] as was the M3 Lee tank, produced in 1941 and 1942.
Robert Edward Lee Jr. (October 27, 1843 – October 19, 1914) was the sixth of seven children of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Randolph Custis. He became a soldier during the American Civil War , and later was a planter , businessman, and author.
Visitors can return to Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial starting on Tuesday.
Her descendants have owned the land ever since. Fish house on a SC plantation with ties to Robert E. Lee that sold for $9 million. The rustic wood-sided plantation house is on a bluff overlooking ...
Lt. General Arthur Gregg, from Florence SC, stands center left with the family of Lt. Colonel Charity Adams, from Columbia SC, on the right. A Virginia Army base previously named for Robert E. Lee ...
Mildred Childe Lee (February 10, 1846 – March 27, 1905) was an American society hostess and the youngest child of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee.She was the last member of the Lee family to be born at Arlington Plantation and had a privileged upbringing typical of members of the planter class, attending boarding schools in Winchester, Virginia, and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Anne Carter Lee was born on June 18, 1839, at Arlington Plantation in Virginia. [1] She was the fourth child and second daughter of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. [1] Lee was named after her grandmother, Anne Hill Carter Lee, and was a member of the prominent Lee family. [1]