He was appointed a midshipman in the U.S. Lee.Ĭareer Portrait of Lee by Thomas Sully, 1845 He was the grandson of Richard Henry Lee, great-nephew of Francis Lightfoot Lee I, brother-in-law of Francis Preston Blair Jr., and of Montgomery Blair, and was third cousin of Robert E. Lee was born on February 13, 1812, at the Sully Plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia, to Francis Lightfoot Lee II and Jane Fitzgerald. Blair Sr., and their house in Washington is now the president's official guest house.
Lee married Elizabeth Blair the daughter of Francis P. demonstrated how the war had divided families. Lee, his refusal to join the Confederates' side by remaining loyal to the U.S. In the American Civil War, he took part in the New Orleans campaign before commanding the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, covering the coastlines and inland waters of Virginia and North Carolina, and finally the Mississippi River Squadron. Samuel Phillips Lee (Febru– June 5, 1897) was an officer of the United States Navy.
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