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his further studies were continued at the school of Mr. Ambler, and at the University 01 \'irginia, where he matriculated in the autumn of i860. After the passage by the \'irginia convention of the ordinance of se cession, Lee went with one of the companies organized among the students at the uni- versity to seize the arms and ammunition in the arsenal at Harper's Ferry. In Feb- ruary, 1862, he entered the "Rockbridge Artillery" and as a private in that battery took part in Jackson's celebrated valley campaign, and was with it during the ''Seven Days Battles" in front of Richmond, at "Cedar Mountain," at "Second Manas- sas," and notably at "Antietam" (Sharps- burgj where his father failed to recognize Inm owing to his changed appearance, blackened and grimy with the dust and sweat of battle. Six weeks after Antie- tam he was appointed, October 30, 1862, aide-de-camp, with the rank of first lieu- tenant, on the staff of his brother. Gen. \\'illiam H. F. Lee, and served till the end. After the war he pursued the simple life of a farmer, refusing to enter public life. H ; lived at "Romancoke," in King William county, formerly the estate of Col. William Claiborne after he was dri\en from Kent Island by Lord Baltimore, and died at "Xordley," his summer home, in Fauquier county, October 19, 1914. His remains were taken to Lexington, and a great con- course of people witnessed their interment by the side of his illustrious father. He married (first) in 1871, Charlotte Maxall. daughter of Barton Haxall, of Richmond. He married (second) his cousin. Juliet, daughter of Col. Thomas Hill Carter. He was the author of "Recollections and Let-

ters of General Robert E. Lee," Doubleday, Page & Co, Xew York, 1904.

Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, born in the "Lee nian.'^ion," .\rlington (now National Cemetery), \'irginia. May 31, 1837; in 1857 entered Harvard College, but left in 1857; appointed second lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment United States Infantry, and ac- companied his regiment in 1858 in the ex- pedition to Utah ; resigned in 1859 ; returned tr, \'irginia and took charge of his estates in the county of Xew Kent; in 1861 raised a company of cavalry and joined the Con- federate service, and was promoted succes- sively from captain to major-general of cavalry ; wounded at Brandy Station in June. 1863; captured in Hanover county by a raiding party, and taken to Fortress Mon- roe : transferred to United States prison at I'ort Lafayette in 1S63, where he was con- fined until March, 1864, when he was trans- ferred to Fortress Monroe and exchanged : returned to his command, and served throughout the campaign of 1864, until the /urrender at Appomattox ; returned to his plantation ; member of the state senate for one term ; removed to Burke's Station, Fair- fax county, X'^irginia ; president of the state agricultural society ; engaged in agricultural pursuits : elected as a Democrat to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses (March 4, iS87-March 3. 1891): died at "Ravens- uorth." Loudoun county, \'irginia. October T5, 1801.

Lilley, R. D., in 1861 entered the Con- federate service as captain of the Augusta Lee Rifles, and took part in the operations in western \'irginia; subsequently his regi- ment was attached to Early's brigade of I'^well's divisicm. with which he was iden-