Edwin Gray Lee

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Edwin Gray Lee (May 27, 1837^[1] – August 24, 1870) was an American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War. He was a member of the Lee family and second cousin of Robert E. Lee. After engaging in combat, Lee was sent to Canada by the Confederate government for secret service.

Lee was born to Edmund Jennings Lee and Henrietta Bedinger at their home Leeland in Shepherdstown, Virginia. Lee's grandfather, Edmund Jennings Lee, Sr., was a brother of American Revolutionary War General Light Horse Harry Lee. His father was a lawyer and, unlike many of Lee's relatives, stayed out of public life. His father was opposed to Virginia seceding from the United States.^[2]

Lee attended Benjamin Hallowell's school in Alexandria, Virginia, and graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1852. He received his law degree in 1859 from Washington College.

Lee died in Yellow Sulphur Springs, Virginia, and is buried in Lexington, Virginia, at the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery.

[edit] References

• Alexander, Frederick Warren. Stratford Hall and the Lees Connected with its History (1912) History of the Lee family
• Warner, Ezra J., Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders, Louisiana State University Press, 1959, ISBN 0-8071-0823-5.
• Find-A-Grave entry for Lee

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Warner, Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders, p. 177.
2. ^ Alexander, Stratford Hall and the Lees Connected with its History, p. 285.

Persondata
NAME	Lee, Edwin Gray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Confederate General
DATE OF BIRTH	May 27, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH	Shepherdstown, West Virginia
DATE OF DEATH	August 24, 1870
PLACE OF DEATH	Yellow Sulphur Springs, Virginia