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Former Confederate Major-General Fitzhugh Lee was the consul-general of the United States to Havana, Cuba at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. During the war he commanded the VII Army Corps. Biography: The son of a U.S. (and later Confederate) naval officer, Lee was born in Virginia in1835. He attended the West Point Military Academy ...
W.H.F. “Rooney” Lee. Date of Birth - Death March 31, 1837 - October 15, 1891. Born at Arlington in 1837, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee was the second son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Randolph Custis. His pedigree included “Light-Horse” Harry Lee and Martha Washington. Though hardly the most famous member of his family, “Rooney”—as ...
W. H. F. Lee. William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (May 31, 1837 – October 15, 1891), known as Rooney Lee (often spelled "Roony" among friends and family) or W. H. F. Lee, was the second son of General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis. He was a planter, a Confederate cavalry General in the American Civil War, and later a Democratic Congressman from ...
Fitzhugh Lee became a national hero thanks to his well-publicized promotion of American interests as United States consul general in Havana, Cuba, on the eve of the Spanish-American War (1898). Though he initially counseled against rushing into conflict after the sinking of the USS Maine battleship in Cuba, Lee supported the war once it was declared, and he was offered a major general's ...
Fitzhugh Lee, 1835–1905, Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War, b. "Clermont," Fairfax co., Va.; nephew of Robert E. Lee. He campaigned against the Comanche in Texas and later was an instructor at West Point when Virginia seceded in May, 1861.
12 de ene. de 2024 · Fitzhugh Lee served as military governor of Havana and Pinar del Río from December 30, 1898, through April 17, 1899. Fitzhugh Lee mustered out of the volunteer army on April 12, 1899. Fitzhugh Lee was commissioned as a brigadier general in the regular army on April 12, 1899, and subsequently commanded the Department of the Missouri in the U.S.
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (Arlington, 1837-Alexandría 1905) fue un militar confederado y político estadounidense, y segundo hijo de Robert E. Lee y Mary Anna Curtis. Durante la Guerra Civil Americana alcanzó el grado de general de caballería del ejército confederado, como segundo de su padre.
