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A Robert E. Lee timeline Date published: 3/10/2007
Key dates in the life of Robert E. Lee:
Jan. 19, 1807--Born at Stratford Hall in Westmoreland County. 1810--Leaves Stratford with his parents, Henry "Light-Horse Harry" and Ann Carter Lee, to live in Northern Virginia. 1829--Graduates second in his West Point class, having received no demerits. 1831--Weds Mary Custis, the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, at her family's plantation, Arlington House. 1846-47--Mexican-American War begins. Lee serves on the staff of Gen. Winfield Scott, and is promoted to major in U.S. Army. 1852--Lee becomes superintendent of West Point. 1859--Leads troops in putting down abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. 1861--Virginia secedes from Union. Lee resigns from U.S. Army, and accepts command of Virginia military and naval forces. 1862--Given command of Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. 1862-1863--Lee has string of battlefield victories: Seven Days, Second Manassas, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. And he's beaten in two forays into the North at Sharpsburg/Antietam and Gettysburg. 1864--Faces Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in The Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House and Cold Harbor. Lee's army holds trenches during Siege of Petersburg for nine months. 1865--Lee becomes general-in-chief of Confederate forces. Union breaks through at Petersburg. He surrenders to Grant at Appomattox. After the war, he becomes president of Washington College in Lexington. 1870--Lee dies of stroke, at age 63, in Lexington.--Stratford Hall
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