Fitzhugh Lee


Fitzhugh Lee was a Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War, the 40th Governor of Virginia, diplomat, and United States Army general in the SpanishAmerican War. He was the son of Sydney Smith Lee, a captain in the Confederate States Navy, and the nephew of General Robert E. Lee.

Lee was born at Clermont in Fairfax County, Virginia. He was the grandson of Light Horse Harry Lee, a nephew of Robert E. Lee and Samuel Cooper, and cousin of George Washington Custis Lee, W.H.F. Rooney Lee, and Robert E. Lee, Jr. His father, Sydney Smith Lee, served under Commodore Perry in Japanese waters and rose to the rank of Captain his mother, Anna Maria Mason Lee, was a granddaughter of George Mason and the sister of James Murray Mason.

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