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Lee (FITZHUGH an American military)

FITZHUGH, an American military officer; born in Clermont, Fairfax co., Va., Nov. 19, 1835. He was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1856. At the outbreak of the Civil War he resigned his commission and entered the Confederate Army, rising through its grades to that of Major- General. He participated in all the battles of the Army of Northern Virginia, and was severely wounded at Winchester in 1864. He commanded a cavalry Ga., March 25, 1818. corps of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1865, surrendering to General Meade in March. He was governor of Virginia from 1886 to 1890. Appointed consulgeneral at Havana in 1893 he served there till 1898, and was at the head of (BARBOUR PERRY), an American novelist, born in Bristol, Conn., in 1860. She graduated from Smith College in 1886. From 1890 to 1893 she taught English at Vas- JENNETTE LEE, 07. He ates Milite tered the 36, and ca 16 Lee was the Unite sbrevettes ar for "ga Cerro Go gust, 1847 the actione co; and co nent servic close of th ointed a zu rd of En Se superint 5, when ho mel of colonelcs ihis swor LEE sar College, and from 1893 to 1896 she was head of the department of English, in the College for Women, at the Western Reserve University. From 1904 to 1913 she was professor of English language and literature at Smith College.

In 1896 she married Gerald Stanley Lee.

Her novels include "Kate Wetherill" Island" (1910); "Unfinished Portraits" (1916); "The Air-Man and the Tramp " (1918); "The Rain-Coat Girl" (1919).

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