LEE, ELIZA ( III:CT:)lINSTER) ( 1792- I S114 ) An American author, the daughter of Joseph Buckminster. She •IIS born at Portsmouth, N. H., was well educated by her father and brother, Joseph Stevens Buekminster; married a Thomas Lee of Boston: became a writer. and was un usually felicitous in her descriptions of New England life. She wrote: Xi:etches of a New England Village (1838): Naomi, or Boston Two Hundred Fears Ago (184S) ; and memoirs of her father and brother (1849). She translated from the German. wrote a life of Richter (1842). and published an historical novel, Parthenia, the Last Days of Paganism (1S58).
LEE. nrinuon (1835—). An American soldier, nephew of Robert E. Lee, and prominent as a Confederate officer during the Civil War. He was born in Clermont, Va.: graduated at West Point in 1856; served against the and from Slay, 1860. until the outbreak of the Civil War was instructor of cavalry at West Point. Ile resigned from the Federal service early in 1861, entered the Confederate Army. and Mail September of that year was adjutant-general in General Ewell's brigade. He then served as colonel of a cavalry regiment in nearly all the important operations of the Army of Northern Virginia; was appointed brigadie•-gene•al in July. 1862, and major-general in september, 1863; was severely wounded at Winchester, Va., on September 19, 1864; and from :March. 1865. tnntil his surrender to General Sh.ade at Farm wa: in command of all the Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia. In 1874 he delivered a patriotic address at Bunker Hill. whielt at tracted considerable attention: in 1882-83 Ile made a lecturing tour through the South on be half of the Southern Historical Society; and from 1886 to 1890 he was Governor of Virginia.
lle was appointed collector of internal revenue for the western district of Virginia in 1895, and in 1896 was sent to Cuba by President Cleveland as consul-general at Havana. In April, 1898, N•hen war with Spain appeared inevitable, he was recalled, along with all the other American con suls, and in Slay was appointed major-gene•al of volunteer- and placed in command of the Seventh Army Corps. In January. 1899, he becalms Governor of Havana. and subsequently was placed in command of the Department of !Mis souri. Ile published Robert E. Lee (1894) in the "Great Commanders Series." LEE, FaAxe's Lu;lrrt.00• (1734-97). An American patriot, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Ilc was born at Stratford. Westinorelan 1 County. Va., and was the fourth scn of Thomas Lee. and the brother of Richard Henry Lee and Arthur Lee. He was educated by private tutors, and upon the death of his father he inherited a considerable fortune, and, establishing himself on his large estates on the banks of the Rappahannock, he lived there the quiet. easy life of a Virginia gentleman. Ile was It sineere patriot and was willing to risk all in the cause of the Colonies. Ile served for ten (1765-75) in the Virginia 'House of Burgesses, and in 1775 was elected a member of the Continental Congress, in which he served until 1779. signing the Declaration of Independ ence in 1776 and taking part in the work of framing the Articles of Confederation. After his retirement from Congress his only participation in public affairs was a term in the Senate of his native State.