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Robert Edward Lee

Born:

January 19, 1807, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland county, Virginia, U.S.

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Robert Edward Lee

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Robert E. Lee (born January 19, 1807, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland county, Virginia, U.S.—died October 12, 1870, Lexington, Virginia) was a U.S. Army officer (1829–61), Confederate general (1861–65), college president (1865–70), and central figure in contending memory traditions of the American Civil War.