Robert E. Lee Jr.
Robert Edward Lee Jr.
b. 1843 · d. 1914
Third son of Robert E. Lee Robert E. Lee b. 1807 · d. 1870 United States Army officer who spent much of his childhood in Alexandria at the house on Oronoco Street before his West Point appointment, and who later commanded Confederate … and Mary Anna Custis Lee Mary Anna Custis Lee b. 1808 · d. 1873 Wife of , daughter of , and great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. Brought Arlington House and its Mount Vernon-derived collections into the Lee household. ; Confederate captain. Author of the 1904 memoir Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee, an essential primary source for Lee biographers.
Robert E. Lee Jr. left the University of Virginia at eighteen to enlist as a private in the Rockbridge Artillery; he was commissioned an officer later in the war. After Appomattox he farmed at Romancoke on the Pamunkey River and lived quietly until the 1904 publication of his Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee, which drew on his father’s correspondence and family memory and remains in print today.
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