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Lee, Fitzhugh

Lee, Fitzhugh

(1835–1905) soldier; born in Fairfax County, Va. (nephew of Robert E. Lee). An 1856 West Point graduate, he led Confederate cavalry in the Virginia theater during the Civil War. He was governor of Virginia (1886–90), U.S. consul general to Cuba (1896–98), and commanded the U.S. VII Corps in Cuba following the Spanish-American War (1899–1901).
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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Lee, Fitzhugh, and Joseph Wheeler, Cuba's Struggle Against Spain.
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