. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ki. MAJOR-GENERAL FITZHUGH LEE, A nephew of the Souths greatest commander. General Fitzhugh Lee did honor to hisfamous family. Alongthe Rappahannock and in the Shenandoah he measured swords with the Federal cavalry, and over thirtyyears later he was leading American forces in Cuba. He was born at Clermont,Va„ in 1835, graduated atWest Point in 185(5, and from May, 1860, until the outbreak of the Civil War was instructor of cavalry atWest Point. He resigned from the United States Army, and entered the Confederate service in 1

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ki. MAJOR-GENERAL FITZHUGH LEE, A nephew of the Souths greatest commander. General Fitzhugh Lee did honor to hisfamous family. Alongthe Rappahannock and in the Shenandoah he measured swords with the Federal cavalry, and over thirtyyears later he was leading American forces in Cuba. He was born at Clermont,Va„ in 1835, graduated atWest Point in 185(5, and from May, 1860, until the outbreak of the Civil War was instructor of cavalry atWest Point. He resigned from the United States Army, and entered the Confederate service in 1861. Hefought with Stuarts cavalry in almost all of the important engagements of the Army of Northern Virginia,first as colonel, from July, 1862, as brigadier-general, and from September, 1863, as major-general. He wasseverely wounded at Winchester, on September 19, 1864, and from March. 1865, until his surrender toGeneral Meade at Farmville, was in command of all the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia. In1896 he was sent to Cuba by President Cleveland a

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