Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . alry;her next sister, Anne, married Lieutenant Lewis Brown,and the youngest, Virginia, lately married Lieutenant John Carter Montgomery, all ofthe same regiment. Theeldest son. Captain FitzhughLee, is in the Seventh Cav-alry, and was attached tothe presidential staff atWashington, and GeorgeMason Lee is a lieutenantin the same regiment. Sydney Smith Lee, thebrother next to Fitz, wasa lieutenant in the Confed-erate Navy. He was first inthe Drewrys Bluff batteries,and thence was sent abroadto await the building of theforeign cruisers. Tiring ofinaction in w
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . alry;her next sister, Anne, married Lieutenant Lewis Brown,and the youngest, Virginia, lately married Lieutenant John Carter Montgomery, all ofthe same regiment. Theeldest son. Captain FitzhughLee, is in the Seventh Cav-alry, and was attached tothe presidential staff atWashington, and GeorgeMason Lee is a lieutenantin the same regiment. Sydney Smith Lee, thebrother next to Fitz, wasa lieutenant in the Confed-erate Navy. He was first inthe Drewrys Bluff batteries,and thence was sent abroadto await the building of theforeign cruisers. Tiring ofinaction in what he and SamBarron called The ParisNavy, he was recalled andserved on coast defense dutyand in the small inland-builtironclads, of brief life. He never married, though he survivedthe surrender and was as popular with the gentler sex aswith his own. He died in 1887. Major John Mason Lee, elder of the two surviving sonsof the admiral, now resides in Stratford county. He madegood record in the cavalry of the A. N. V., winning his rank;. CAPTAIN HENRY CARTER LEEC. S. CAVALRY (4th son of admiral lee) BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF TEE SIXTIES 439 and after the war married Miss Nora Bankhead, daughterof Dr. Bankhead, of that neighborhood. There are fivechildren of this union: Miss Nannie Mason Lee, Mrs. Lin-wood Antrim (Dorothea Lee) of Richmond; Mrs. C. (Bessie Lee), of Hanover; John M. Lee, Jr., andBankhead Lee. Henry Carter Lee, next brother to John Mason, also servedin the cavalry and gained his captaincy. He marriedMiss Sallie B. Johnston, and resided in Richmond, dyingthere two decades ago. They had three sons and onedaughter: Johnston and Smith, now of Richmond; Willie,now hving in New York, and Miss Nannie Mason Lee, ofRichmond. No youngster was betternor more pleasantly knownin war-time Richmond thanDan Murray Lee, the nextyoungest son of the entered the C. S. N. at itsformation, as a midshipman,and came out of it web-footed as it were; passed-middie and
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