| Summary: | (In this photograph, Lee's collar lacks a general's wreath around the three stars, but his buttons are arranged like a brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1829; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in April 1861 and was commissioned as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in May 1861. Promoted to full general in June 1861. Major campaigns and battles include Cheat Mountain, South Carolina defenses, Seven Days', Second Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, the defense of Richmond, and Appomattox. After the war, Lee became president of Washington University in Lexington, Virginia. He died in Lexington in October 1870 and is buried there. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 4. National Historical Society, 1991.
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