Birthplace of Fitzhugh Lee

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To the north stood Clermont, the birthplace of Fitzhugh "Fitz" Lee. Born on 19 Nov. 1835, Lee was the nephew of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1856. During the Civil War, Fitzhugh Lee was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Confederate army and became a major general in 1863. He served with Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and commanded cavalry at Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Lee was the governor of Virginia from 1886 to 1890. He served as Consul General in Havana (1896-1898) and commanded the U.S. Army VII Corps in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Lee died in Washington, D.C., on 28 Apr. 1905.

Department of Historic Resources, 2004

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

George Washington Cullum, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1868), 2:445; Patricia L. Faust, ed., Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1986), 429; Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee's Lieutenants, a Study in Command, 3 vols. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1942-44); John A. Garraty and Mark Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 23 vols. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University, 1999), 13:366-368; Harry Warren Readnour, “Fitzhugh Lee: Confederate Cavalryman in the New South,” in Edward Younger, ed., The Governors of Virginia, 1860-1978 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1982), 110-120.