Fitzhugh Lee
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Fitzhugh Lee
From Sketches of Heroes of the American Army and Navy to Accompany The Journal's Photographs in Blue
ca. 1900
Cyanotype
Image: 11 x 7.7 cm
Mount: 16.5 x 10.6 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2009
2008.0533.0013
Inscriptions verso (printed in black on applied newsprint): NO. 15. / FITZHUGH LEE. / (Sketches of Heroes of the American Army and Navy / to Accompany The Journal's Photographs in Blue.) / Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of the Confederate commander-in-chief. Gen. / Robert E. Lee, was born in Clermont, Fairfax country, Virginia, Novem- / ber 19, 1835. He was graduated at the United State Military academy in 1856, and commissioned second lieutenant in the Second cavalry. At the beginning / of the civil war in 1861 he resigned his commission and entered the Con- /federate service. He was first placed on staff duty, and was adjutant- / general of Ewell's brigade until September, 1861, when he was made lieutenant-colonel of the First Virginia cavalry, and later was promoted / colonel, and he participated in all of the campaigns of the Army of North- / ern Virginia. On July 25, 1862, he was made brigadier-general and on / September 3, 1863, major-general. In the battle of Winchester, Septem- /ber 19, 1864, three horses were shot under him and he was disabled by a / severe wound, which kept him from duty for several months. In March, / 1865, he was put in command of the cavalry corps of the Army of North- / ern Virginia, and a month later he surrendered to Gen. Meade at Farm- / ville, after which he retired to his home in Stafford county. In 1874 / he made a speech at Bunker Hill which attracted wide attention. He / was elected Governor of Virginia in 1885, and in President Cleveland's / second administration was appointed consul-general at Havana, and left / that city just before the declaration of war. He was assigned to the / command of the Seventh army corps, but was not called to the front. He / will probably be appointed military governor of the province of Havana.
