Robert E. Lee

Politician

Robert E. Lee was born in Stratford Hall, Virginia, United States on January 19th, 1807 and is the Politician. At the age of 63, Robert E. Lee biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
January 19, 1807
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Stratford Hall, Virginia, United States
Death Date
Oct 12, 1870 (age 63)
Zodiac Sign
Capricorn
Profession
Military Officer
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Education
United States Military Academy
Robert E. Lee Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Mary Anna Randolph Custis, ​ ​(m. 1831)​
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George, Mary, William, Robert Jr., Anne, Eleanor, Mildred
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Robert E. Lee Career

Military engineer career

On August 11, 1829, Brigadier General Charles Gratiot ordered Lee to Cockspur Island, Georgia. The plan was to build a fort on the marshy island which would command the outlet of the Savannah River. Lee was involved in the early stages of construction as the island was being drained and built up. In 1831, it became apparent that the existing plan to build what became known as Fort Pulaski would have to be revamped, and Lee was transferred to Fort Monroe at the tip of the Virginia Peninsula (today in Hampton, Virginia).

While home in the summer of 1829, Lee had apparently courted Mary Custis whom he had known as a child. Lee obtained permission to write to her before leaving for Georgia, though Mary Custis warned Lee to be "discreet" in his writing, as her mother read her letters, especially from men. Custis refused Lee the first time he asked to marry her; her father did not believe the son of the disgraced Light-Horse Harry Lee was a suitable man for his daughter. She accepted him with her father's consent in September 1830, while he was on summer leave, and the two were wed on June 30, 1831.

Lee's duties at Fort Monroe were varied, typical for a junior officer, and ranged from budgeting to designing buildings. Although Mary Lee accompanied her husband to Hampton Roads, she spent about a third of her time at Arlington, though the couple's first son, Custis Lee was born at Fort Monroe. Although the two were by all accounts devoted to each other, they were different in character: Robert Lee was tidy and punctual, qualities his wife lacked. Mary Lee also had trouble transitioning from being a rich man's daughter to having to manage a household with only one or two slaves. Beginning in 1832, Robert Lee had a close but platonic relationship with Harriett Talcott, wife of his fellow officer Andrew Talcott.

Life at Fort Monroe was marked by conflicts between artillery and engineering officers. Eventually, the War Department transferred all engineering officers away from Fort Monroe, except Lee, who was ordered to take up residence on the artificial island of Rip Raps across the river from Fort Monroe, where Fort Wool would eventually rise, and continue work to improve the island. Lee duly moved there, then discharged all workers and informed the War Department he could not maintain laborers without the facilities of the fort.

In 1834, Lee was transferred to Washington as General Gratiot's assistant. Lee had hoped to rent a house in Washington for his family, but was not able to find one; the family lived at Arlington, though Lieutenant Lee rented a room at a Washington boarding house for when the roads were impassable. In mid-1835, Lee was assigned to assist Andrew Talcott in surveying the southern border of Michigan. While on that expedition, he responded to a letter from an ill Mary Lee, which had requested he come to Arlington, "But why do you urge my immediate return, & tempt one in the strongest manner[?] ... I rather require to be strengthened & encouraged to the full performance of what I am called on to execute." Lee completed the assignment and returned to his post in Washington, finding his wife ill at Ravensworth. Mary Lee, who had recently given birth to their second child, remained bedridden for several months. In October 1836, Lee was promoted to first lieutenant.

Lee served as an assistant in the chief engineer's office in Washington, D.C. from 1834 to 1837, but spent the summer of 1835 helping to lay out the state line between Ohio and Michigan. As a first lieutenant of engineers in 1837, he supervised the engineering work for St. Louis harbor and for the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Among his projects was the mapping of the Des Moines Rapids on the Mississippi above Keokuk, Iowa, where the Mississippi's mean depth of 2.4 feet (0.7 m) was the upper limit of steamboat traffic on the river. His work there earned him a promotion to captain. Around 1842, Captain Robert E. Lee arrived as Fort Hamilton's post engineer.

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The bronze statue that ignited Charlottesville's Unite is bronze. The Right movement in Charlottesville has melted down due to the city's black history museum's failure.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 26, 2023
In 2021, the statue of Lee, who was a prominent slave owner and revered Confederate Army general, was withdrawn from its plinth in Charlottesville, Virginia, and has since been melted down. According to The Washington Post, the statue was sliced into pieces and then dissolved in a furnace at a little location due to rumors of backlash. White supremacist groups had fought for the statue not to be demolished, with the infamous 'Unite the Right' rally gathered outside the statue.

Even though the Confederate General appears in the college's name, Washington & Lee University's plaque honoring Robert E. Lee's horse Traveller is slashed

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 11, 2023
The plaque commemorating Traveller, which was placed over the horse's grave site, was moved from its spot outside Lee Chapel, which is a National Historic Landmark as part of a string of demolitions. In July, the school was able to get rid of plaques enshrining the room where Lee took his oath of office as president of the school in 1865 and the other denoting his office from 1865-68. The school introduced a strategy in 2021 dedicated to themes of plurality, equity, and integration, which erased a significant portion of the general's imprint on the university.

In a discrimination lawsuit, a black San Francisco State University employee claims that the white supervisor who is 'obsessed with the Civil War' called him a 'runaway slave.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 3, 2023
The complaint, which was filed last month and amended in California Superior Court on Tuesday, was brought by 53-year-old DeMauriae Vaughn, who claims he was repeatedly attacked by Karen Rubin, 49, who was referred to numerous instances of bigotry from his then-supervisor. Rubin, an award-winning academic advisor, was recruited by the university in 2019 to head its Advising Resource Center. Vaughn, then regarded as an outstanding employee, was promoted within the department as an academic advisor a few years ago. Vaughn, a 17-year employee, found his boss incredibly difficult to deal with, according to the suit states, who named him a 'runaway slave.' Rubin continued to work at the academy for months after a probe revealed her conduct, according to the filing, who also claims that Oklahoma-born Rubin was excessively preoccupied by the Civil War and kept a portrait of Robert E. Lee in her office. It goes further that the advisor, who worked as a partner success manager at a boutique consulting company in South Georgia days after leaving the school, left the role on her own initiative.' The suit The suit claims Vaughn met with Associate Dean Susan Shimanoff (right) and complained about the behavior, but was dismissed